A mum has been left living in a hotel room with her son and baby due to the housing crisis. Abbie Coulthard, eight-year-old son Rocco and six-month-old Dollie, live in a hotel room with three beds pushed together.

The main bed is for Abbie, a single bed for Rocco, and a unit for Dollie to sleep in between them.

In the hotel room they currently call home clothes hang from the curtain pole by a window which doesn't open. Next to the hotel TV are an air fryer and a kettle, which are their only way of heating up food.

Behind the bed is a large, garish picture, a stark reminder that the room is usually aimed at people heading out on the town and not a family just trying to get by.

"We lived in a normal house, but the landlord put the rent up and then said he wanted to sell the house," expla

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