'I can have 50 kids if I want to': Father defends council's decision to knock two homes together to make a super-home for family-of-12 'on £40,000 a year in benefits

A jobless couple have been given a council 'super-home' for them and their ten children - at the taxpayers' expense.

Tim Fisk, 43, and his pregnant girlfriend Mandy Ball will get a giant home with six bedrooms and two bathrooms when council bosses pay for two properties to be combined into one.

The couple, who live on benefits, hope to move in with ten of their 12 children before their next child arrives in December.

And despite outrage from neighbours, the defiant pair insist they are entitled to the new house and branded locals who have tried to block the scheme as 'jealous'.

Mr Fisk said: 'If I wanted 50 children, that is my decision.

'Who has got the right to tell me what to do? Why should anyone stick their noses into other people's business? 

'Getting this larger house is the right thing for us. We are really overcrowded at the moment.' 

The former fencing contractor and Miss Ball, 41, receive an estimated Ј40,000-a-year in benefits including child tax credits, disability living allowance, carer's allowance, housing benefit and council tax benefit. .dailymail