The expectant couple living in a bed on a roundabout

Next to a busy roundabout Ladislav Boldezersky holds a statuette of the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus. He is lying next to his partner Nada Venglarova, who is five months pregnant, on a divan bed.

The bed sits between the roundabout traffic whooshing past and a brick wall scrawled with graffiti tags. Overhead there is more noise from vehicles on the A4234 Central Link flyover near the centre of Cardiff, in Wales.

Next to the couple, who are from the Czech Republic, is a bedside cabinet where they keep a cooking pot and bottles of milk and water. And next to that is the jarring sight of a pram ready for the arrival of their first child together though they hope their living arrangements will look very different then, WalesOnline reports.

Ladislav, a 56-year-old with a deep voice so soft it is almost a murmur, points to the Madonna figurine and says: "This is Maria."

"The only thing I ask from God is food for Nada and me," he says.

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He and Nada, 43, have been together for five years. They have been living next to the roundabout, which connects Tyndall Street and East Tyndall Street, for a month and a half since they left Cardiff Council's nearby Ty Ephraim hostel. Ladislav says they had to leave the hostel because Nada does not have a passport.

The counci said Ladislav can access homelessness services but Nada is not eligible because she has no right to reside in the UK. WalesOnline reports Nada had previously been allowed to stay in the hostel for two years because accommodation was available for everyone during the Covid pandemic but about six weeks ago she was told to leave. Although Ladislav was allowed to keep his place in Ty Ephraim