In pictures: Residents rally round for The Great Whitnash Tadpole Rescue

Water in the ditch At Acre Close playing field had almost evaporated during the recent dry weather spell leaving the tadpoles struggling to survive.

Local artist Lynne Gougeon noticed their plight and raised the alarm appealing for people to come down with containers of pond and rain water and take the tadpoles to ponds where there are no fish to feed on them.

She posted on the Whitnash What's On and Leamington Spa Noticeboard public Facebook groups and on Sunday morning (May 10) a group of volunteers of various ages and from as far away as Solihull came to the park with buckets, tubs and fishing nets to rescue as many of the ‘thousands’ of tadpoles as they could.

Lynne said: “It was really moving.

"I couldn’t believe it.

"It was lovely how it brought people together and did some real good.”