FED-UP with forking out a small fortune for a tiny bedsit?

 Why not pay a fraction of the price and set up home in an old fire station?

In return for looking after empty premises, cash-strapped tenants — or guardians, as they are known — get loads of living space in prime locations for as little as £45 a week rent INCLUDING council tax.

Many public buildings are involved in the scheme, including old schools and town halls.

Barmaid Lyndsey Dawson, 23, is one of six tenants living in a laboratory that fell into disuse more than a decade ago.

Others who have moved in include a cabbie and a teacher.

Lyndsey pays £180 per month for the use of a vast office in the three-storey building on Bidston Hill, Merseyside, on the Wirral peninsula.

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