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Nick Horner & Hannah Mackenzie Wood

Mum with cancer fears family will 'have to sleep in car' amid eviction nightmare

A mum-of-six says her evicted family are being forced to choose between moving miles away or face homelessness - all while she is battling cancer.

Shirley McPadden claims she was offered "much higher rent for a ****hole" by Birmingham City Council, and is now desperately trying to find alternative housing.

The struggling 40-year-old says her family - who have lived in the privately-rented home on Walsall Road, Great Bar, for 11 years - were initially offered a hostel Edgbaston and then a house in Newtown - six miles away from her children's schools.

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