:00:00. > :00:00.Good morning - Jenny here, live with all the news you need
:00:00. > :00:17.Europe's Mars mission crosses it's fingers for a safe landing.
:00:18. > :00:31.And the people looking after these cute but spiky creatures.
:00:32. > :00:33.When was the last time you saw a hedgehog?
:00:34. > :00:38.Well, research carried out by the Suffolk Wildlife Trust has
:00:39. > :00:41.found there has been a huge drop in the number of hedgehogs
:00:42. > :00:46.Hedgehogs - they are cute and prickly, but life in busy towns
:00:47. > :00:49.and cities can present a real dangers for our spiky friends.
:00:50. > :01:09.Sanctuaries like this one just go to show the problems
:01:10. > :01:14.There are 80 to 90 hedgehogs here, all tucked up safe and warm.
:01:15. > :01:18.They are usually found by people who bring them to us.
:01:19. > :01:20.We have abandoned babies, babies who have wandered off
:01:21. > :01:23.Injuries through streamers and netting, road accidents.
:01:24. > :01:26.We also have the sick ones that are found lying in people's
:01:27. > :01:30.We try to get them up to weight as soon as possible and then
:01:31. > :01:39.25-year-old Ali is the youngest hedgehog officer in the UK,
:01:40. > :01:42.and it is her job to link up these areas of green space to give
:01:43. > :01:45.hedgehogs the chance to move around freely and safely when they come
:01:46. > :01:54.We have obviously got lots of great parks across the town but also
:01:55. > :01:57.lots of houses, fences and walls making it difficult for them to get
:01:58. > :01:59.between these great habitats, so we are trying to get volunteers
:02:00. > :02:02.on board who will manage their gardens for hedgehogs
:02:03. > :02:05.and will hopefully persuade their neighbours to do the same
:02:06. > :02:07.so we have whole streets of connected gardens that hedgehogs
:02:08. > :02:10.will be able to easily navigate their way through.
:02:11. > :02:13.We have got a hole down here so they can get
:02:14. > :02:22.Ten-year-old Daisy is one of the many people across
:02:23. > :02:24.the UK doing their bit to help the hedgehogs.
:02:25. > :02:27.It is important to take care of hedgehogs because they are
:02:28. > :02:34.endangered and I want them to be around when I am older.
:02:35. > :02:37.I've been making it somewhere that hedgehogs can come and live and stay
:02:38. > :02:44.For example, I have made some houses and I give them water
:02:45. > :02:56.Anyone my age that wants to do it, I'd say, yes, they can do it,
:02:57. > :03:01.because the more help that we have, the more hedgehogs there will be.
:03:02. > :03:04.And in Champions League action last night,
:03:05. > :03:06.Leicester City are on the brink of making the knockout stages
:03:07. > :03:10.A Riyad Mahrez goal helped the Premier League champions
:03:11. > :03:12.beat FC Copenhagen 1-0, to now make it three
:03:13. > :03:17.They are already five points clear of second place, and seem
:03:18. > :03:20.Elsewhere, Tottenham were away at German side
:03:21. > :03:24.And they had their goalkeeper Hugo Lloris to thank after coming
:03:25. > :03:30.He put in a man-of-the-match performance to secure them a point,
:03:31. > :03:40.Later, today the space probe Schiaparelli is all set to land
:03:41. > :03:44.If all goes well, it will be the European Space Agency's
:03:45. > :03:46.first successful landing on the Red Planet.
:03:47. > :03:49.If this attempt works, it'll be the start of a mission that experts
:03:50. > :03:51.believe stands the greatest chance yet of finding evidence
:03:52. > :04:03.Professor Tim O'Brien from Jodrell Bank joins me now.
:04:04. > :04:06.Tim, this isn't the first landing on Mars, is it?
:04:07. > :04:17.It is the mission that is going to test the technology that lets us
:04:18. > :04:22.land on Mars so it is difficult, but we looking forward to future
:04:23. > :04:26.missions and in 2020 we will send a Rover to Mars that will drive deep
:04:27. > :04:30.into the surface of Mars. It is all about how we get from space right
:04:31. > :04:35.down to the surface successfully. An exciting time.
:04:36. > :04:37.Astronaut Tim Peake told Newsround he believes
:04:38. > :04:47.I am not sure it will be intelligent life but there could be life on
:04:48. > :04:51.Mars. There is another spacecraft going around Mars and that one is
:04:52. > :04:54.designed to look for gases like methane in the atmosphere that are
:04:55. > :04:59.thought to be produced by like some microbes might even exist now below
:05:00. > :05:04.the surface of Mars. The last time there was a European mission to land
:05:05. > :05:11.on Mars it was not successful. You're a part of that. Why was it so
:05:12. > :05:18.tricky? Yes, Beagle Two was a British spacecraft drop on
:05:19. > :05:25.tomorrow's -- on to Mars. I was in the control room. It is hard. It
:05:26. > :05:29.hits the atmosphere moving at 20,000km/h so it heats up
:05:30. > :05:33.incredibly, has to slow down with parachutes and rockets until it is
:05:34. > :05:35.just above the surface at which point the rocket switch off and it
:05:36. > :05:39.drops onto the surface for the last two metres so it is very difficult
:05:40. > :05:44.to do and in very harsh conditions as well. My goodness! An exciting
:05:45. > :05:48.time. Thank you for coming in to speak to us about it. We will have
:05:49. > :05:50.more on that. Make sure you're watching online as well.
:05:51. > :05:53.Newsround's back right here at 4.20 with Ricky.
:05:54. > :05:56.Don't forget to go online for all the rest of the day's stories,