A Nottinghamshire council has refuted claims from a homeless couple that it has not been supporting them after they set up a tent in the middle of a town square. Lyndsey Webster, 45, and Annmarie Burlikowski, 48, live in Sutton in Ashfield and at one stage set up a tent on a field near one of the town's primary schools.
But they were recently served with a notice to leave that site ahead of pupils returning for the new school term, and have therefore just set up their tent in Portland Square, the home of Sutton's market. Despite having now been there for days, the couple say that no support has been given and that the market has instead been going on around them.
Annmarie Burlikowski said: "I feel as though we're being victimised and since we've been here, it's as if we're ghosts because nobody has spoken to us. Lyndsey served in the Armed Forces for three years and has given to her country, but now we've got absolutely nothing apart from each other.
