Jim Kippax is a farmer and resident of Churchtown, a village in Lancashire which was flooded from river overflow twice in the space of 8 months in 2015 and 2016. The floods damaged 58 of around 100 houses in the village, so the victims came together and developed the first community flood defence scheme in the country. The people of Churchtown raised £100,000 from charities to build a clay and brick embankment that will defend the village from further floods. The defence was built partly on Jim’s land, where his childhood home was flooded and was so damaged he had to pull it down.

This is the first episode in a series telling the stories of members of the Churchtown flood defence group. Churchtown is a village in Lancashire which was flooded from river overflow twice in the space of 8 months in 2015 and 2016.