Village 'very sad' after 20 scarecrows vandalised

School children helped design some of the scarecrows featured in the village display

A community has come together after local children were left "absolutely gutted" when their village scarecrow parade was damaged by vandals.

The display in Spaxton, Somerset was part of their flower show celebrations with members of the community including school children making scarecrows.

Natasha Bond who lives in the village helped her daughters make a scarecrow and said: "It's unbelievable that this could happen in Spaxton, it's very sad".

Organisers told BBC Radio Somerset a working group had been out fixing the scarecrows to get them back into a "reasonable shape".

Judging of the competition had taken place prior to the vandalism of the scarecrows

Natasha Bond built a scarecrow with her daughters, and said they were "absolutely gutted, as were all the other children in the village".

She added: "It was the last day of school, they had to go past those scarecrows in the morning, there were a lot of tears".

Vicky Hemming, one of the organisers of the flower show and scarecrow parade, said there has been a "huge upwelling of feeling" about it in the village.

Ms Hemming added that a working party had been sent out to fix the scarecrows and were able to restore all but one of them.

The flower show is set to run as normal this weekend.