A PUB landlady's dreams of rebuilding her life in her home city after the tragic death of her two young children were today lying in tatters.

Stephanie Parker, 31, is being forced to find alternative accommodation after being asked to leave the York pub she has managed for five months.

The blow comes days before the third anniversary of the death of her eight-week-old daughter, Kylie, and three-year-old son, Richard, in a road accident at Scarborough on August 4, 1995.

Kylie was killed instantly and Richard died four days later in hospital.

A year after the accident Stephanie moved back to York to take up a job as a barmaid after separating from her partner, Richard Thompson.

In February this year, she took over as tenant of The Queen in Lawrence Street, York, and was looking forward to making the pub her new life.

But her dreams were dashed when Century Inns told her it was putting the pub under new management.

"I came here in an effort to rebuild my life and I thought I was getting sorted out - now I've lost my home, I've lost everything," she said.

"It's just hit me out of the blue and I don't know what's going to happen. I don't know what I am going to do now."

She admitted she had owed the company £2,000 towards rent and stock, but thought she had come to an arrangement with management to pay the money in the next few days.

She said she had introduced karaoke and entertainment nights and her four guest rooms had been fully booked for the Ebor Races week.

A spokesman for Century Inns said: "We have continued to make every effort to help Mrs Parker make a success of the venture, and have had numerous meetings before and after she decided to close the pub last week and failed to turn up for a training course which we arranged.

"It was agreed with Mrs Parker that we were changing the tenancy and she was fully aware that our local business development manager was going to the pub with a new temporary tenant."

He said the company was allowing her to remain in the flat above the premises until she found alternative accommodation.

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