'They banged on my door as I was told to leave... two weeks after my baby died'

manchestereveningnews.co.uk:

The mother of a baby girl who died at 28-days-old - having spent her short life in a basement flat susceptible to damp, cold and mould - claims she was told by a social housing provider she had 48 hours to leave two weeks after the tragedy.

Irah Izzy Best's mother Ainsley Barker claims she received a text telling her to vacate the Salford property a fortnight after her daughter died.

She claims workers from Cromwood Housing Group banged on her door while she was coming to terms with her unthinkable loss. Calls, emails and further texts followed, she claims. READ MORE: We may never know why she died - but we know her short life was a tragedy Ainsley spoke to the Manchester Evening News following an inquest into her daughter's death.

She and her partner feared the conditions at the flat were a factor in her falling fatally ill. A coroner acknowledged the 'suboptimal' conditions at the Weaste Lane property, where there was damp, mould and a sump pump with an 'element of sewage contamination' and a 'high' level of E.