Villages get flood defence cash

Hundreds of properties along the River Trent were flooded

Three Nottinghamshire villages hit by flooding last summer will benefit from £150,000 in council cash.

The county council said the money would be used by the Environment Agency in Burton Joyce, Gunthorpe and Lowdham - all flooded in the summer of 2007.

The Environment Agency's Paul Lockhart said the prevention work was "good news for people living in the county's vulnerable villages along the Trent".

He said the work would protect people from the "distress caused by flooding".

The work will be completed by the end of 2009 and will include flood embankment work in Gunthorpe, a new flood bank on Station Road in Burton Joyce and a new flood wall in Lowdham.

Some families hit by flood water in Lowdham have still not returned to their homes.

County Councillor Chris Baron said: "The flooding of homes is very traumatic for those who suffer it and raises anxiety among others whose homes are at risk elsewhere."