A disabled mother says her family face homelessness because they have been let down by their district council.

Sharon Gibson, 33, has multiple sclerosis - a condition that can leave her wheelchair-bound.

She and her husband Grant, 46, along with their two children, moved from Portsmouth to Abingdon to be with family when Mr Gibson left the Royal Navy after 22 years service.

But two years after joining the Vale of White Horse District Council's housing register the family have still not been housed.

The couple, who had lived in married quarters, joined the register in October 2004 in anticipation of Mr Gibson leaving the Navy in January.

But in February they still had nowhere to go and were forced to rent a private house, in Parsons Mead.

Now they have been given eight weeks' notice to leave.

Mrs Gibson said: "I feel wholly discriminated against and feel they're not meeting my needs as a disabled person. We've been told we have been prioritised but I don't feel it's enough."

Mrs Gibson, who is registered disabled and cannot work, said the council had told them they would have to rent private accommodation.

But she said it was almost impossible to find houses suitable for her wheelchair.

She said: "With a private rented house you cannot adapt it."

She added: "I cannot use the wheelchair in the house. I have to drag myself up the stairs if I want to use the toilet. There is no access in and out of the house for the wheelchair. We just don't know where to go next."

The Vale said it could not comment on individual cases, but a spokeswoman said: "We have 3,500 families on the housing register and we expect 300 to 400 houses to become available each year.

"Therefore, we advise people on all the options available to them including shared ownership and private letting."

She added that families were placed in four priority bands and available houses were offered to a particular band. If more than one family 'bid' for the house it was allocated to the family who had been on the register the longest.