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This hedgehog chose the right drain to get stuck in after the homeowner brought his mates around to rescue it.

Firefighter Reggie Larkin, of Wokingham Road station, was on his way back from a call to a kitchen fire when he received a text message from his father-in-law telling him there was a hedgehog stuck in his drain in Hurricane Way.

Mr Larkin said the drain grate in the driveway of his Woodley home had recently gone missing and his father-in-law was replacing it when he noticed the animal was trapped.

He said: "I asked my boss if we could go and rescue it and he said yes."

It was firefighter Sam Gost who managed to reach into the drain and pull the hedgehog, who has since been named Sonic, free.

(Image: Wokingham Road Fire Station)

Mr Larkin added: "We put him in the back garden and I rang my wife and asked her to check on him when she got home.

"By the time I had got home he had gone."