Animal lovers Nick and Julie Packham made a 250-mile round trip to make sure a rare albino hedgehog survives.

The couple, from Pluckley, near Ashford, drove all the way to Mrs Packham’s home town in Aylesbury to take the young male to an animal sanctuary.

Mrs Packham said: “We drove there and back that night.

"Originally when we found it we were feeding it in the garden but the sanctuary told us it would not survive in the wild.”

Mr and Mrs Packham had found the male hedgehog two weeks earlier in their garden in Lambden Road and would leave it food.

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