Hedgehogs struggling to cope in summer heatwaves

Wildlife hospitals like this one in Shepreth, near Cambridge, are being kept busy during summer heatwaves with "unprecedented" numbers of hedgehogs arriving dehydrated.

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Hedgehogs and other British wildlife are poorly suited to the heat, which scientists say is becoming more extreme and longer lasting because of climate change.

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