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A memorial tree is to be planted in memory of a wallaby after he was hit by a vehicle and died.

Mr Willoughby Wallaby fled his paddock at Roots at Thorpe Farm in Barkby Thorpe, Leicestershire, after it was damaged in a tree fall during Storm Amy on Monday 17 September.

But after days of searching the countryside, including from the air using drones, his body was found on a roadside in the village.

Farmer George Mount said Mr Willoughby Wallaby's ashes would be placed at the roots of a newly-planted tree "so he will remain close and in our thoughts and hearts".

George Mount spoke to 麻豆社 Leicester's Ady Dayman.