Hundreds of people are protesting a "cruel" decision to evict a council house tenant from her lifelong home months after her mother's death. Around 700 people have signed a petition calling for Caerphilly Council to allow Andrea Long to keep her home in Greenway, Abertysswg. She is battling depression and anxiety following the sudden death of her mother Ruth in January.
The council has told Andrea — who is now living alone — she must leave the three-bedroom house because rules only allow for one succession per tenancy. The tenancy had already been passed over to Ruth when Andrea's father Kenneth died in 2010.
