A POPULAR BBC One programme featured a segment filmed in Oswestry during its Sunday show.

Countryfile aired its Evacuees Special at 7pm on Sunday, which was partly filmed in the town.

The section focused on Oswestry as being one of the first rural areas to re-settle refugees.

Parts were filmed in Cae Glas Park, while presenter Tom Heap spoke to local businesswoman Jools Payne about the part she has played in welcoming refugees to the area.

Jools opened up about what urged her to help to re-settle Syrian refugee families and what reaction it brought.

She said: “Well I woke up to a really harrowing interview on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme following the refugees and I listened to a woman called Hamza, who was a mother with four children.

“I just found it so powerful – I was weeping. It was at that moment I thought I had to do something.

“I have received a bit of personal abuse, but you kind of expect that.

“We held an information meeting which was attended by some of the unsavoury element who demanded to know where these people were going to live.”

The presenter also spoke with one of the 20 Syrian families that came to the area in 2016.