A woman who shares a bedroom with her four children is desperate to find a new home.

Angela Foster, 30, moved into her aunt's home when she and her partner split up in May.

Now, ten people live in cramped conditions in a three-bedroom house in Glyn Avenue, Didcot.

The aunt has twice ordered Mrs Foster and her children, aged 11, nine, four and 16 months, to quit - in an attempt to persuade South Oxfordshire district council to rehouse them.

However, the aunt, who has four children of her own, has not carried out the threat because the Foster family have nowhere else to go.

Mrs Foster, who lived with her partner in Norfolk, said: "My aunt has been very generous in taking us in and would not put us on the street. But, because of severe overcrowding, the arrangement can only be very temporary."

Mrs Foster, who suffers from Crohn's disease - a debilitating bowel disorder - and is on income support, said she had been unable to find private accommodation.

She has had to turn down bed-and-breakfast accommodation in Oxford and Henley because of problems in getting her older children to school.

Didcot councillor Mike McNulty, until recently chairman of the council's housing committee, said the Foster family clearly needed a home in the Didcot area.

He said: "The district council is trying to find more accommodation for homeless families.

"Often, the council can offer only temporary bed-and-breakfast accommodation outside the district, which is unsatisfactory."

Mr NcNulty said the council was doing all it could to help the family.