ANOTHER homeless mother with two children has told of the misery spent in bed and breakfast accommodation.

Twenty-five-year old Samantha Richards has spent nearly six months in a B&B in Evesham with her son Liam aged seven and two year old Klay-Antony who is asthmatic.

Now Wychavon's housing department say they have reviewed her case and she is not entitled to emergency accommodation so has to vacate.

Mrs Richards said: "We have been living in very cramped conditions all this time with no cooker or washing machine, in the hope that we would be found somewhere to live. The council's own limit is 28 days to review a case. My case has been handed on to three different people before they finally came back with the news that I was not entitled to emergency accommodation and had to move out.

"Luckily my friend has now taken me and the kids in. She only has a one bedroom flat, but without her we would all be on the streets."

Miss Richards said she left Evesham last year after her house was burgled, to stay in a property her Uncle owns in Nottingham. She then lost her driving licence and found taking Liam to school impossible so returned to Evesham to be near friends.

Miss Richards contacted the Journal after the result of a Government Audit Commission's draft report that criticised the housing department's performance was revealed.

Two weeks before the report appeared Michelle Marsh's plight was highlighted after spending three months in bed and breakfast with her eight-year-old daughter, Peggy. Housing department staff said then that 13 families were in similar accommodation costing about £1,000 per family each month. A number of elderly and ex prisoners were also in similar accommodation. At any one time there are 2,500 people on the housing waiting list.

Head of housing for Wychavon District Council Liz Dyde said: "The department needed more time to investigate Miss Richards case which turned out to be more complicated than usual. The conclusion was that she has made herself intentionally homeless which means that we have no obligation to put her in emergency accommodation."