David Munt from Potter’s Bar, Hertfordshire braved the Arctic weather and sub-zero temperatures to spend a night in an igloo in his garden. He decided to sleep in his creation after spending the previous day making the igloo from snow and ice, with help from the children on his street.
Episode from BBC Radio 4’s Living World on life in a 100-year-old National Trust orchard in Hertfordshire full of strange beasts that can only be found among old fruit trees, including beetles that look like fleas and moth caterpillars which bore holes in trees as thick as a finger. Listen here
Nature and wildlife of Britain