A 72-YEAR-OLD has been turning heads in East Oxford by driving around town with a poignant message emblazoned over his car.

Driver Lionel Moss, known to neighbours as Ariel, lashed two blue wheelie bins to the roof of his blue Volvo Estate and painted a pro-EU plea on them in white paint.

It states: "The carnage & misery of WW1, Hitler & WW2 wouldn't have arisen had the EU already existed.

"A UK exit could start a chain reaction destroying the EU. Vote unselfishly for a peaceful & cooperative future for humanity."

Mr Moss, who lives in Henley Street, is Jewish himself and lost at least one family member in the Holocaust.

He said: "My reasoning is based solely on peace. With the EU's existence there has not been any conflict within the EU for so long.

"The misery and death and destruction, and the awful ogre of Hitler, I am sure would not have happened in the EU.

"When the car has been parked people have come up and complimented me and lots of people look at it and smile."

So far Mr Moss has not been contacted by Oxford City Council about either of the two bins, one of which is his own. The other was reportedly abandoned.

He said: "I'm misusing council property. What can they do? I'm 72; people of this age can be a bit cheekier."