Plaudits for hedgehog saviours

The Rotherham Blue Watch team had been returning from fitting smoke alarms in the Tickhill area when they found the “spiky little fella” at around 3pm on Saturday.

South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue said that they had stopped traffic, scooped the hedgehog up, popped him in a smoke alarm box and then delivered him to a hedgehog rescue in Bramley.

Well wishers offered their compliments to SYFR, with Hilary Holme Johnson saying on social media: “Firefighters are amazing people but this was above and beyond, thank you guys.”

Dianne Rousseau added: “Thank you to the firefighters. You saved this little one’s life.”