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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Antony Thrower & Stephanie Balloo

Mum cries most nights in cold council flat as child says 'I don't want to live here'

A distraught mum says she cries almost every night because of her “damp and freezing” council home which her daughter has begged her to move from.

Martimer Shurmer, 21, has lived in the flat with her two children for a year but says they have all suffered constant colds as the heating does not work.

She says the home has a hole in the kitchen wall letting in the freezing air, as well as causing mould and other issues.

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