Plans for a new nature reserve have been boosted by a £2m grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Suffolk Wildlife Trust has received the money to support the establishment of Worlingham Marshes, near Beccles.

Some 381 acres within the Lower Waveney Valley and the Broads National Park would become a “corridor of wildlife”.

The trust’s Matt Gooch said it could “develop a landscape-scale example of reversing wildlife decline, supporting nature to adapt to climate change”.