A fungus that looks like a gnome and is virtually new to science has turned up in a village close to Ledbury.

A kind of 'earthstar' called, formally, Geastrum Brittanicum, was first found in Norfolk as recently as 2015, and it was no less an authority than Kew Gardens which identified it as a new species.

Now it has raised its bobble head for the first time ever in Gloucestershire, just over from the Herefordshire border and it was Natural England employee, Danny Newman, who found it growing on a verge close to St Edward's Church in Kempley.

Posting on her facebook page, she said: "They are supposed to resemble little men. The identification was confirmed by Jonathan Revett, who found the first specimens.

"They are such weird things. I find them amazing!"

Kempley is also well-known for its wild daffodils, lying in and area called "the golden triangle".