BRITAIN’S LAST BOXES
As a sign of our changing technological times, 60% of under-30s in the UK have never used a telephone box. At their peak in the mid-1990s, numbers of these iconic red phone boxes in Britain stood at 100,000. Nowadays, around 20,000 working ones remain.
Help our hedgehogs
Small, spiky (£16.99, HB, Doubleday) is the fascinating new book by conservationist Dr Tom Moorhouse, which investigates how wildlife lovers can tackle the threats facing them. By creating hedgehog highways, petitioning, and rewilding our green spaces, gardeners across Britain could hold the key to their survival.
