Ukrainian refugees could face weeks waiting in an Ayr hotel due to a lack of available hosts willing to take them in.
Two bus loads of women and children fleeing their war-torn homeland are currently being held in the Mercure Hotel just 48 hours after South Ayrshire Council were first notified.
A support volunteer who is helping the effort to provide safe new temporary homes for hundreds of terrified war survivors says the process is a “bureaucratic nightmare”.
