Tour of Britain: Keyworth hedgehog on bike wins national art prize

A elephantine portion of artwork showing a hedgehog riding a motorcycle has been crowned the victor of the Tour of Britain's onshore creation competition.

Children helped to make the representation up of the rhythm contention passing done Keyworth successful September.

Tour manager Mick Bennett said sharing their enactment "fills maine with joy".

Dale Road was crowned victor of Britain's Biggest Hedgehog Street earlier this period by 2 wildlife charities.

The plan was inspired by the village's hedgehog-friendly schemes, including a thrust to make holes successful plot fences to let the susceptible mammals to walk done people's gardens, known arsenic a hedgehog highway.

Jennifer Manning-Ohren, laminitis of Wild Things Keyworth, which was down the hedgehog highway, said: "It was a wonderful, shared acquisition and I americium truthful blessed to person been a portion of it.

"We are truly attached to Spike and we are hoping to get smaller versions successful spot astir the village."

The representation was captured connected ITV4's unrecorded provender of the contention via a drone.

Artist Liz Waddell, said: "It was specified a thrill erstwhile the drone went up and we saw what we had created - conscionable from a hasty sketch connected an A4 portion of paper, recovered materials and nary acquisition of this benignant of happening before."

Mr Bennett, said it had been a situation to take a victor from the galore entries received.

He said: "It was fascinating to larn astir assemblage enactment progressive successful the Keyworth hedgehog road and being capable to stock this origin with others fills maine with joy."