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A disabled builder ended up living in a CAVE for five months - after he was allegedly booted out of his home by a housing association.

Cameron Logan lived like a 21st century caveman in a 15ft by 12ft cave, in the Scottish resort town of Oban.

He and his partner Elaine survived in the cave for 22 weeks from May to September after housing chiefs told them there was no alternative accommodation.

The 50-year-old former construction worker, said: "In this day and age, having to live in a cave is just not right. I'm amazed we survived.

"Two people don't deserve to have to live in a cave. It was only our love for one another that kept us going after everyone else let us down."

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Furnished with old carpet and wooden pallets to sit on, the pair had sleeping bags to keep them warm and spent their time searching for firewood to burn.

Cameron was a resident in Ross House homeless accommodation in Oban, Argyll, for more than two years prior to his ordeal.

But after breaching the terms of his tenancy by offering Elaine - who herself was sleeping rough - shelter in his one-bedroom apartment, the pair were apparently booted out.

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Cameron said: "I've always been from the area so I knew the cave was there.

"It was all we had and our only option - the only place we could go if we hoped to survive.

"We slept in sleeping bags with our heads poking out of the front of the cave. We found some wooden panels which we used to sit on and we were given some rugs too, to keep us warm.

"But it was so uncomfortable. Just imagine yourself what it's like sleeping in a cave every night.

"As well as the problems I have with my legs, I've got depression too.

"Both were made so much worse by living in that cave and I found myself turning to alcohol more than ever before.

"Life in the cave left me at my lowest point."

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Cameron and Elaine, who has since moved to Helensburgh, were helped by the Oban man's long-term friend Stephen Kelly and his partner Ashley McGuire, both 50.

Cameron said: "We'd wake up every morning with the bells going at the church and go down to use their toilet.

"Sometimes my legs would be so bad though that I'd struggle to walk that far and just have to go in the trees beside the cave.

"We had no showers and had to wash under the taps in the local public halls just to make ourselves clean.

"Nothing about it was hygienic. It was no way for a man and a woman to live."

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The Blue Triangle Housing Association said that they do not comment on specific cases.

A spokesman for Argyll and Bute Council said: "There are many different reasons why people find themselves homeless.

"We would encourage anyone in this situation to come to our Homeless Service offices."