I live with my daughter, Keeley, 6 in Devon. Her father, my ex husband, lives in London.

Every three weeks Keeley spends the weekend with her dad as part of a court order. The court order states he collects her from me in Devon and takes her back to London on the friday night. Then on the sunday night i drive for 5 hours to collect her from London and bring her home to Devon.

I was driving to collect her when my car broke down about an hour from my house. The AA recovered me and drove me back to my house. My car is a gonner.

I rang my ex and asked him to bring Keeley back because I had no car to do it and I cant afford the train fare.

He refused. He says he cant afford the petrol to drive the 240 mile journey. I don’t buy this. He is a network manager on London wages. I am a sales assistant and single mum of three.

If he doesn’t bring her back not only will Keeley miss school but she doesn’t have more than a weekend’s worth of clothes with her.

I am powerless because its not in the contract that he has to return her. I have to collect her. Not only that if he wanted he could drag me to London Court and get me in loads of trouble for not picking her up. (Trust me. He’s done it before. £250 fine because I was 8 hours late picking her up because my eldest daughter went into hospital after an asthma attack.)

So any ideas what I can/should do? All answers appreciated. Thanks.