These are the toad patrols, and they help an amphibian with love on its mind. Early spring is the start of the breeding season for common toads (Bufo bufo to scientists). A warm, wet evening is ...

was set up in 2012 to ferry toads, frogs and newts across the carriageway to their breeding ponds. Since then, dozens of people have donned high-vis jackets and patrolled Boundary Road each year ...