'We can hear rodents scratching in our walls - it's so bad I've had to pay hundreds for a hotel'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukBeverley Wood and her two teens have spent the last week in a caravan. But it’s no Easter getaway - just a temporary escape from the “absolute terror” they experience at their rodent-infested home in Oldham.
The mum-of-two says she has spent more than £1,400 - almost all of her monthly income - on moving from one AirBnB to the next this month.
Her two kids, who are diagnosed with autism and find changes in their environment challenging, are at their limit dealing with all the change, she says.
But Beverley feels she has no choice. In almost two years of reporting her housing issues, the 45-year-old claims her housing association, Onward Homes, has done “nothing” sort out what she suspects is a writhing rodent nest beneath the housing estate. READ MORE: 'It was absolute madness': Neighbours recall moment car ploughed into house leaving man, 20, seriously injured With money running out, Beverley - who works as a part-time teaching assistant - says they family will soon "have no option left" but to move back into their rat and mouse-infested home. “We still don’t have a home,” she said. “I feel like I’m getting to the point where I’m running out of options.
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