A FAMILY living in a tiny house are still desperate to move.

As we reported in the Advertiser on April 12, the Ratcliffe family think their two-bedroom house at Golding Close, Stratton St Margaret is too small.

The couple, who already have two children, Charlotte, four, and Jack, ten months, are expecting their third child in August.

When the baby, is born Stuart, 29, and Clare, 24, fear they are going to have no room for another cot.

Mr Ratcliffe, a development executive at a Swindon car sales company, said: "I have been writing to the council, I've been looking on the council's transfer list computer and writing to people on the list. But nothing has helped."

Council house transfers are based on a points system and the family now has 250.

Mr Ratcliffe said: "We've got no room at all. When the baby is born there will be two beds and a cot in a line in one room.

"Every time the baby wakes, Charlotte and Jack will too."

Richard Freeman, a Swindon Council spokesman, said: "We have looked at Mr Ratcliffe's case and although we sympathise with his situation, we are unable to offer him a house in the areas he has indicated the family would be prepared to move to.

"Demand always exceeds supply and we have to use our policies to make sure that we give priority to those with the most pressing need."