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For the LOVE OF HOGS

When mobile hairdresser Marian Grimes, 63, from Norfolk, found a hedgehog in the road one day, seven years ago, she instinctively knew something was wrong.

Having grown up in the countryside, feeding the birds and loving nature, she knew the little fellow was in trouble.

‘I initially picked him up and put him under a hedge,’ says Marian. ‘But something stopped me leaving him there. I thought, “No, hedgehogs shouldn’t be out in the day.”’

She took the hedgehog – who she named

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