Housing trust bosses have apologised to a family after taking more than three months to mend the shower at their Bradford home.

The Farooq family said they reported the fault at their home in Tamar Street, Canterbury, to Bradford West City Community Housing Trust in October last year.

But work to replace the shower is not scheduled to be carried out until tomorrow.

Mohammed Farooq, 34, suffers from obsessive compulsive disorder, heart problems and a skin disease which all worsen with stress.

He said his four children - Umar, 13, and Hassal, 12, who both have asthma, Faisal, 16, and Arooj, six - were having to get up two hours earlier to turn on the water boiler before they went to school.

His wife Ruksana Farooq, 37, said: "We could manage for one or two weeks but it has been three months.

"It was really hard during Ramadan because it's important to keep clean during this period.

"My husband has had a heart attack and doctors have warned us not to give him any stress.

"Even a little stress makes his heart pump faster and he starts sweating."

Ian Simpson, executive director of Bradford West City Community Housing Trust, said: "We apologise for what we acknowledge is an unacceptable delay in dealing with the faulty shower and the inconvenience this may have caused the family."

The Farooqs have also been urging the housing trust to provide larger accommodation, which doctors have advised due to Mr Farooq's mental health problems.

Three of the children share two single beds because their bedroom is too small for a third bed.

Mrs Farooq said: "Sometimes the kids start arguing so one of them comes and sleeps with me. Mohammed ends up sleeping on the sofa and doesn't get proper sleep."

Housing bosses have advised the family to continue applying for accommodation through the Trust's Homehunter letting service.