Scotland on Sunday - Top Stories - Home sweet home for MSP and the asylum-seeker she has given a bed EVEN though the 14-month-old baby has just crumpled up a picture of her two teenage daughters and put the silver frame on her head, Rosie Kane is still laughing.

As the child, who belongs to asylum-seeker Mercy Ikolo, lunges for her handbag and empties the contents around her cosy sitting room, the Scottish Socialist MSP just smiles and keeps on talking.

"I wish I had more space to offer them but there’s a lot of warmth and fun here," she says.

It has certainly been a welcome move for Ikolo, 32, and her baby Percile-Liz, who had been detained at the Dungavel Detention Centre since August 17. Last week Kane invited mother and baby to stay at her two-bedroom Glasgow flat until their asylum cases are processed.