I always called him Mr Toad. He was much better pest control than a whole shed full of chemicals. George Orwell shared my love of the common toad (Bufo bufo). In the year I was born — 1946 — Orwell ...

The Charlcombe Toad Rescue Group is hoping to help more than 3,000 amphibians reach their ancestral breeding lake in the valley below. Charlcombe Lane near Bath, Somerset, will be shut until March 25 ...