A mother-of-one is being forced to "dish-out" more than £100 because the council are taking down her satellite dish but will not put it back up.

Ealing Homes have told Lina Ghrabie, 38, and the other council tenants on Norman Avenue they are doing about a month's work on the bricks and roofs of their homes.

But residents were shocked when they read the information handed out which told them the dishes: "Will be removed for the duration of the works and handed back to you. Tenants are responsible for reinstallation."

This means residents like lease-holder Lina will be forced to pay for their Sky TV when they do not have it and will have to pay an additional £100 to get the dishes back up.

Heathrow employee Lina said: "It's unbelievable. I haven't got extra money to spare on getting this done.

"First of all we are going to be without television for four or five weeks. It wouldn't be difficult for them to fix the dishes onto the side of the scaffolding.

"And then when they do go we have to pay to have them put back up.

"It is happening to everyone in the street. We feel they are vandalising our homes and then making us pay to put it back."

Lina, who owns the lease on the Southall home which she shares with her 11-year-old son, said some of the more vulnerable tenants don't even know what is going on.

"The lady downstairs is a pensioner and she doesn't speak very good English," she said.

"She gets the Indian channels through Sky but she's going to lose those.

"She doesn't know what is going on."

But Ealing Homes have said the pamphlet they handed out was unclear and it is only tenants who did not get permission for their dishes who will not have them put back up.

Ealing Homes spokesman Andy Mahady said: "We apologise for it being slightly misleading.

"If you got permission to put the satellite dish up then you have nothing to worry about.

"But if they didn't get permission then as far as we are concerned we're just taking the dishes down."

Mr Mahady said the wording of the leaflet would be changed the next time they are reprinted.