A COMMUNITY campaigning for barriers to protect their village from flooding posed with umbrellas to raise awareness yesterday.
Around 60 residents of South Hinksey took part in the demonstration after their homes were affected by serious flooding five times since 2000.
They now are hoping the Environment Agency will buy temporary flood barriers they can put up behind the village hall to stop the waters threatening their homes.
The event was organised jointly by the Oxford Flood Alliance and South Hinksey Parish Council, and was supported by Oxford West and Abingdon MP Nicola Blackwood and Lib Dem and Labour parliamentary candidates Layla Moran and Sally Copley.
Flood alliance chairman and South Hinksey resident Peter Rawcliffe: "This village deserves defending. We were given concrete barriers this year, now we want to make sure we can protect ourselves every year."
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