Oxfordshire Wildlife Rescue service had to suspend emergency operations after their centre flooded.

Staff at the centre on Woodway Road Blewbury in Upton near Didcot were forced to remove water with buckets and salvage expensive equipment.

Sick animals were also relocated from the affected area.

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This comes following heavy rain in the Oxfordshire area over the past few days.

Oxfordshire Wildlife Rescue (OWR) posted on Facebook: “Sadly, we've flooded.

“Tonight saw the team shovelling- bucketing water out until our pump arrived, rescuing and literally floating /relocating patients to safer areas and saving our expensive equipment were we possibly could.”

“We are currently discussing about potentially getting a portakabin onsite so that we can just continue on with our work.

“We apologise for the delays in our services and we are working on getting ourselves back up and going asap.”

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The team have managed to make alternative arrangements and aim to be operational again by 6pm this evening (April 1).

They added: “We would like to thank the team who came in on their night off to aid in our flooding issues!

“Thankfully we have now resolved the issues.

“We would like to ask those who wish to support OWR to please consider making a donation towards the costs of running our service in saving lives through the link below.

“To make a donation to help OWR: https://donorbox.org/support-the-oxfordshire-wildlife...