A new swim challenge event organised by Sureswim Kernow and Cornwall Wildlife Trust has raised more than £11,000 to help protect Cornwall’s vulnerable marine habitats.

Cornwall Wildlife Trust has received £46,300 from The National Lottery Heritage Fund to help ensure its continued work to protect Cornwall’s wildlife and wild spaces.

You can probably remember when they were a familiar sight at night in gardens and hedgerows but that’s a fast-fading memory, as hedgehog numbers have halved in the countryside in the last 20 years…