Holding out for a hero

One brave woman, one soggy badger - and a jet ski

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UPTON ON SEVERN, WORCESTERSHIRE

I was walking back from a morning spent cleaning out the hedgehog enclosures at Vale Wildlife Hospital when my manager Martin approached and asked if I was ready to go out on my first rescue. There had been reports of a badger caught in a flood in Upton on Severn.

On arrival, only the boats in the town’s marina distinguished the river from the surrounding farmland now engulfed in water. Our hearts sank at the sight of mud flying into the air from an isolated pocket of land. The badger was digging for its life and had nowhere to turn amidst the deepening cold and murky January water.

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