A council has been ordered to pay £12,000 to a man who lives in a tent because he claims he is allergic to electricity.

Peter Lloyd, a former fitness instructor, has won a legal fight with Cardiff council after a judge ruled he should not have had his payments refused.

The 45-year-old lives in a tent in the garden of a house he claims is "uninhabitable" because his electromagnetic hypersensitivity means he cannot be around any electric devices.

Mr Lloyd applied for direct payments to employ a helper. But the council had claimed he was not capable of managing money, Cardiff Civil Justice Centre heard.