AN EXPECTANT mother fears she may be homeless when her baby is born in three weeks.

Keeley Williams and fiance Martin Worth will have to move out of their home - a static caravan - in two weeks, with nowhere else to go.

The couple were promised a home from a housing association, but the offer was withdrawn after they handed in their notice.

"I really just don't know what's going to happen to us," said Miss Williams, 31.

"It's really frightening me - I can't have my baby out on the streets, but I don't know where we will go," she said.

Mr Worth, 58, has been living in the caravan at Sutton-on-the-Forest for almost three years.

The couple now need a permanent home, so applied in May this year to Broadacres Housing Association, which provides housing across Hambleton.

"We don't think we would be able to get a pram in here, and we worried what social services would say about us bringing a baby back to a caravan," said Mr Worth.

"We want to provide the best home we can for our child, but are finding it very difficult. We don't feel we have been given any real help, and just keep getting palmed off onto someone else," he said.

"We realise the housing situation is tight, but we were prepared to accept a home miles from where we really wanted to live when they offered us one, but then they took that offer back a few days later.

"We really just don't know where we are, or more importantly, where we are going to end up."

Association area manager Alison Orr said: "Where the couple first wanted to live, we had few properties so it was going to take some time, but they widened the area and we offered them a property.

"Unfortunately then the lady in the home changed her mind so we had to rescind the offer.

"It is very, very rare that this happens.

"We understand it has caused them a lot of distress and are now hoping it's not going to be too long a period until another property becomes available."

Updated: 10:21 Tuesday, September 23, 2003