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    Bartsimpson_uk wrote:
    Am I not allowed to have an opinion?? I suspect you do not know this girl at all. I know its not her fault, but again you can not answer any of my questions. Where is the father in all this? There is a housing shortage if you had not noticed, and if I was in her situation and was offered a place not many miles away, I would take it if the hotel was so bad. The fact thet she has turned it down suggests it is not as bad as she makes out. She can't drive, so her family must visit her. If they can not be bothered to drive the short distance to Thame to see her, shows what sort of family she has.
    Well seeing as my comment appears to have been deleted by the censorship police, I will say again. Unless you know the full circumstances, I suggest you mind your own business and stop passing judgement on someone you clearly don't know and who happens to have landed in a difficult situation. I don't know her, but that makes no difference and is not my point. Its people like you, with your "why should I pay for this from my taxes" type attitude that just love to jump on the misfortune of others because you believe you are somehow paying for it. As a young mother with small kids, I am pretty sure she is NOT enjoying being stuck right out on the edge of Didcot. Why don't you contact her, get the full facts from HER, and then come back here and moan and criticise if it would make you feel better..."
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Fire-hit family still living in hotel

10:30am Wednesday 13th June 2012 in Didcot

A YOUNG mother and her two children are still in a hotel more than two months after losing their home in a fire in Didcot.

Dozens of people were forced to flee a block of flats in Venners Water on the Ladygrove estate when fire broke out during the early hours of Good Friday, April 6.

The blaze started in a top-floor flat and left two people needing hospital treatment. About 40 people from 11 families lived in the block and they all needed to be rehoused.

Six families chose to stay with relatives, while five families were found emergency accommodation at the Premier Inn and Apple Cart restaurant at the Milton interchange.

But, more than two months later, Kelly Jones, 21, and daughters, Skye, three, and Brooke, one, are still staying in one room at the hotel.

Discussions have taken place with Home Group housing association, which owns the block of flats.

Miss Jones, whose flat was water-damaged, said: “I feel completely isolated.

“It’s very difficult to manage with two small children in one room with an ensuite bathroom.

“The children’s meal and bed times have been totally disrupted.”

Miss Jones said she had to get a taxi into Didcot to take her eldest daughter to nursery because she could not drive, although the housing association paid for the fare.

Home Group director of customer services Scott Black said: “Customers have been found alternative homes.

“One customer declined an initial property which was offered to her. She has now been offered a second.”

Miss Jones said she had turned down the offer of a house in Thame because it was too far from friends and family.

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