A blind mother who feared she would start the year without a home has now been offered a new house by Bradford Council.

Single parent Caroline Shaw, 29, thanked the Telegraph & Argus for highlighting her plight.

The mother of two, pictured, who suffers from a macula degenerative disease and has been registered blind for seven years, put her name on the Council's housing list when her private landlord gave her notice to leave her home in Thornaby Drive, Clayton, two months ago.

Ms Shaw asked for another house in Clayton because she knows her way around the village and her oldest son, William, eight, goes to Clayton CE Primary School. Her daughter Angel is two years old.

The Council gave the family a "priority card" to help them get a house more quickly.

But, despite her disabilities, Ms Shaw was not given preference for the only available house in Clayton - which even had a dog kennel for a guide dog - because more than 20 people had applied for it.

Last Friday, after her story appeared in the T&A, Caroline was delighted to be told she could move to a new house, also in Thornaby Drive, which had not yet been released on to the housing system.

Councillor Elaine Byrom (Conservative, Clayton) also got involved to help Caroline and her family.

"I don't think I would have stood a chance without the T&A's help because the Council told me there was nothing they could do," said Caroline. "I am so relieved.

"I tried not to let it bother me over Christmas for the children's sake but I was really worried."

Ms Shaw was due to have been evicted yesterday but her landlord agreed to extend her lease until she gets the keys to her new home in about two weeks.

But Ms Shaw is still angry with Bradford Council.

"I am not going to let this drop, because it is a stupid system," she said. "Once 20 people want a house the Council doesn't take into account your personal circumstances, just the date you registered. This new house had not even come onto the system but they gave it to me anyway. Why couldn't they just do that at the start and save me all this stress?"

A Bradford Council Housing spokesman said: ""We have taken her special circumstances into account."