A distressed hedgehog whose thousands of spikes were cruelly cut off with scissors by thugs is on the mend.
After being shorn of its prickles, Frankie the hedgehog was dumped in the kitchen of student accommodation at Sheffield University where it was found by a maintenance man at around 3.30am on Saturday.
The horrified worker immediately rang Allan Broadhead, 77, and his wife Anita, 63, who took the dehydrated and stressed creature into their animal sanctuary in Barnsley, South Yorkshire.
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