Once again we report damage caused by flash flooding and this time it has affected the same villagers in Nuneham Courtenay for the second time within eight days.

Proper infrastructure is obviously essential to protect homes from large amounts of rainfall and it is particularly important at a time when the Government has signalled its intention to allow thousands more houses to be built in Oxfordshire.

It is vital that the effects of this extra housing is understood in terms of increasing flood risk and that the infrastructure to cope is in place long before those houses become a reality.

In the short-term, councillors from Nuneham Courtenay are meeting urgently with landowners, the Environment Agency and Thames Water, to try to devise answers to the village's problems. We hope they are successful.