A WOMAN has moved into a new council flat to find she is sharing it with hundreds of uninvited guests she cannot get rid of.

Miss Sarah Hughes moved into Three Rivers District Council flat in Forfar House, South Oxhey, just two months ago, but is now staying with friends and family after it was overrun by insects.

The 24-year-old said she had only been in the flat three weeks before her home was overrun with Fruit Beetles.

The larvae is resistant to the council's products to deal with such infestations. It has to wait until the larvae become adult beetles to rid them from the flat.

Miss Hughes was homeless before the council housed her, and is grateful for the flat, but did not expect to be sharing it with the flying insects.

She said: "They are everywhere, they are in the lining of the curtains, and falling out onto my bed.

"They [the council] have been round four times to fumigate them.

"The environmental officer is saying it is habitable, but he has not been to see my flat.

"I hoovered up hundreds of them the other day and still they keep coming."

A district council spokesman said: "Our environmental health inspector said the flat is not a threat to health and is not unfit for human habitation.

"We have fumigated this flat several times, but because of the nature of the beast the chemicals used for fumigation kill only the adult Larder Beetle.

"We are going again on Friday [today] to fumigate and the officer will check out other flats to make sure they have not spread.

"But the bugs are not a threat to her health and there is no need to rehouse her."