A JOBLESS mother of 13 said to get £25,000 a year in state handouts has made yet another appearance before magistrates.

Ellen Morris, 40, is now awaiting sentence for driving while banned and uninsured.

The defendant, who claimed in a Sunday newspaper she was going to have more children in a bid to get Pendle Council to give her a six-bedroom house, was bailed until March 17, for a pre-sentence report, by Burnley magistrates.

Morris, who lives with nine of her children at a three-bedroom terrace in Duckworth Street in Barrowford, had earlier admitted driving while disqualified and no insurance. Driving while banned carries a jail term of up to six months.

Morris also appeared before magistrates in Burnley for motoring offences last December. The court was then told she claimed £470 a week.

The defendant was later hit with a parenting order for failing to send her children to school.

The Evening Telegraph reported how Lancashire County Council, backed by the police and Pendle Council, got the order after Morris admitted not sending three of her children to school over a six-month period.

Morris is said to be among only a handful of people in Britain to be served with the maximum 12-month order, aimed at curbing her family's loutish behaviour.

In January, she was fined £700 by Reedley magistrates after being found guilty of 23 offences of playing loud music.

Yesterday her mum, Jean, speaking exclusively to the Evening Telegraph, told her daughter to "get her act together".