The Bank of England is asking the public to decide which animals should appear on future banknotes.

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Hedgehogs, beware: The British are coming! England’s Guy Fawkes Day is sort of like the British version of the Fourth of July. The Nov. 5 holiday commemorates the 1605 arrest of the Gunpowder Plotters ...

When voting ends next month in the Bank of England’s public consultation on which native creature we would like to see ...

For more than 50 years, British bank notes have featured the faces of familiar historical figures. Soon, that tradition will ...

British hedgehogs are now officially vulnerable to extinction, new research has found. The Red List conservation report, which was conducted by the Mammal Society, explains that the spiky creatures ...

We might not have exotic lions, jumping kangaroos or great elephants roaming wild around the UK, but that doesn’t mean Britain doesn’t have plenty of natural wildlife of its own. The humble hedgehog, ...

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Gary Snyder has holes in his garden fence. That’s not normally the kind of oversight you’d find in a well-kept British garden in a market town like Chipping Norton, 75 miles northwest of London. But ...

The unofficial mascot of the UK is in trouble. Over the past 60 years, the country's once-prolific hedgehog population has dwindled from 30 million, to fewer than one million. Humans are likely to ...