AN EX-carpenter who was forced to live in his car for months finally has a place to stay after approaching the Advertiser for help. 

Bill Webber, who suffers from severe brain injuries, had no choice but to leave his family in March this year. 

Since then he has been living in his 2008 Ford Fusion, parking up at different locations throughout Andover and the wider area. 

During the five months he has been living and sleeping in the vehicle. On one occasion he spent his last £2.50 to shower at an Andover sports centre.

The 60-year-old said: “To have to live outside on the streets or in fields for five months now, with no possibility of being housed in suitable accommodation, in the area where I have lived for 50 years, or more, is too much to deal with."

You can read the full story in this week's paper.

SEE ALSO: Man jailed for repeatedly calling 999 despite being banned from doing so

Also in this week’s edition

  • A man who called 999 and an emergency service number more than a hundred times without a genuine emergency has been jailed
  • Pet owners are being urged to stop their dogs going into the water at an Andover beauty spot after test results showed a dangerous toxin
  • The ambulance service that serves Hampshire has been rated ‘inadequate’ by health watchdogs
  • Free wellbeing sessions for anyone affected by cancer are set to be launched in Andover
  • A man has been jailed after assaulting two police officers in a “shocking” and “violent attack” in Andover
  • Goggie, a 14-month-old Bearded Dragon, who went missing last month has been found safe and well in Ludgershall
  • PLUS: Two pages of YOUR letters
  • We have a whole host of photos from the Andover Festival of Motoring, Andover’s first summer fayre, the Goodworth Clatford Village Fete and CarFest South
  • An eight-page puzzle special
  • Entertainment news
  • Sports news
  • And much, much more

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