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19/10/2016

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Good morning. I am Jenny and you are alive with Newsround. First up, when

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was the last time you saw a hedgehog? Last week, last month,

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ever? Research carried out by the Suffolk wildlife trust has found out

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there has been a huge drop in the number of wild hedgehogs in the UK.

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Hedgehogs, they are cute and quickly but life in busy towns and cities

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can present a real dangers for our spiky friends. So, what is being

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done to help them? Sanctuaries like this one go to show the problems

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these little guys face. There are 80 to 90 hedgehogs here, all tucked up

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safe and warm. They come from various sources. They are usually

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found by people who bring them to us. We have abandoned babies, babies

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who have wandered off and got lost. Injuries threw streamers and

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netting, road accidents. We also have the sick ones that are found

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lying in people's gardens, obviously unwell. We try to get them up to

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weight as soon as possible and then we release them. 21-year-old Alison

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is the youngest hedgehog officer in the UK and it is her job to link up

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these areas of green space to give hedgehogs the chance to move around

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freely and safely when they come out at night to feed. We have got lots

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of great parks across the town but also lots of houses, fences and

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walls making it difficult for them to get between these great habitats,

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so we are trying to get volunteers on board who will manage their

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gardens for hedgehogs and hopefully persuade their neighbours to do the

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same so we have whole streets of connected gardens that hedgehogs

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will be able to easily navigate their way through. We have got a

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pole down here so they can get three -- a hole down here so they can get

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through to the other gardens. Ten-year-old Daisy is one of the

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many people across the UK doing their bit to help the hedgehogs. It

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is imported to take care of hedgehogs because they are

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endangered and I want them to be around when I am older. I've been

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making it somewhere that hedgehogs can come and live and stay and get

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some food and hibernate. For example, I have made some houses and

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I give them water and food and mealworms. Anyone my age that wants

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to do it, I'd say yes they can do it, because the more help that we

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have, the more hedgehogs they will be.

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Thanks for that, guys. Later today, this space probe is all set to land

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on the surface of Mars. If it lands well, it will be the European Space

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Agency's first successful landing on the red planet. The last attempt was

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when the Beagle two lander touched down but couldn't send back a signal

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13 years ago. If this works, experts believe this will be the greatest

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chance yet of finding life on Mars. This is the scab Morelli lander and

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it is on a mission to get to the surface of Mars. It has travelled

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500 million kilometres over seven months to get to the red planet. It

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is the first European probe in 13 years to give it a go. The last one

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was the Beagle two which lost contact when it landed in 2003.

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Scaparelli is a fancy name for a lander, right? It is named after an

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Italian astronomer. Something trickier than saying the word

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Scaparelli is landing on Mars. It has to travelled so fast in extreme

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heat and then it will use a parachute to slow down when it gets

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to the surface. After the landing, the satellite which took Scaparelli

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that before separating. The Mars's atmosphere. It will look for things

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like methane gas, which could give clues as to whether there is life on

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the red planet. Later this morning, we will speak to

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a space expert about this Mars mission and don't forget that there

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is lots more online including five man-made things that are already on

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Mars. And Leicester City are on the brink

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of making the Champions League knockout stages at the first

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attempt. They have had three group wins out of three. That is all from

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the team for now but we will be back at 8:15am. Goodbye.

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