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Mum 'struggling to feed family' in six-week wait for council to fix broken oven

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A mum says her family has been forced to live off chips, chicken nuggets and pasta after waiting six weeks for an oven repair by the council.

Sophie Murphy, along with her husband and two children, have been left with just a borrowed microwave, AirFryer and camp fire hob to prepare meals since their oven broke just before Christmas last year.

The 31-year-old retail worker, whose kids are four and 12, says she 'can't afford' to keep surviving off takeaways in the almost two-month wait for repairs.

She claims the cooker the stopped working on Monday, December 20 due to a blown fuse, Birmingham Live reports. A Birmingham City Council worker visited their Kings Norton home on Christmas Eve, but after realising it was a bigger job than initially thought because the electric was faulty, it was left unfixed and with the wires exposed."It will be six weeks this week," she told BirminghamLive."I've had to borrow a microwave because I didn't own one.

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