Mum has been kept in a glamping pod for months at the cost of £500 a week to council

A mum and two young children on Universal Credit have been housed for several months by a council in a £500 a week - GLAMPING pod. Furious Nicola Ibbotson, 32, appealed for urgent housing after she became homeless when her relationship broke up in November last year.

But the authority was unable to find her suitable accommodation and instead put her in an out-of-season ‘glamping pod’ near Falmouth, Cornwall.