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With Spring coming earlier each year Keeley heads to Kent to find out what effect this might have on our wildlife and meets with self-proclaimed ‘Weather Detective’ Dave King to find out what weather we’ll be in store for this summer.

Who knew a game of golf could be so good for our wildlife? Jules Hudson heads to the island of Jersey to find out how the design of The Royal Jersey golf course helps the wildlife living on and around it. Jules and ecologist Sophie Vukelic go on the search for the endemic green lizard living in a beachfront hideaway.

The cream tea has long been a firm favourite amongst us Brits, regardless of whether jam or cream comes first. And of course the perfect accompaniment to the scone is a decent cup of tea. Margherita heads to the beautiful Tamar Valley to meet a lady who is bringing new meaning to a homemade cup of tea.

For fishermen, spring heralds the start of the shellfish season. Anita Rani meets the pioneers bringing new life to one of our most traditional of industries. Every day they go out, weather permitting, and come back in with their catch. But that’s where the similarities with other fishermen end. Tired of the unstable prices when selling to middlemen, ‘Dreckly Fish' sell their catch fresh and direct via Twitter. Anita spends the day in Newlyn, Cornwall, out on the water hauling in the lobster pots with them. 

Margherita continues her journey through the West Country on the hunt for the perfect cream tea. She crosses over the border into Cornwall to meet two enterprising brothers running a successful dairy to get hold of the essential ingredient; clotted cream. Armed with the knowledge of how to make clotted cream at home, Margherita heads to Tavistock, arguably the home of the cream tea, to meet a food scientist who claims to have found the perfect formula for a cream tea. 

For many of us feeding bread to the ducks is a treasured pastime, but it turns out that our well-meaning actions could be doing more harm than good. Paul Martin meets with Jamie Wyver of the RSPB to learn how to pack the perfect picnic for our ducks.