Ananova:

A Polish woman who put an ad on the internet for new grandparents for her kids has had thousands of replies.

Most of them were from lonely old people whose families have moved to Britain.

Hundreds of thousands of Poles have moved to Britain since EU expansion and in many cases whole families have left and have children growing up away from elderly relatives.

Agata Czemierys, from Bialystok, decided to try and adopt grandparents for her children because her own parents are dead.

She said: "I did not want my own two daughters to grow up without grandparents."

But she was deluged with answers to the ad which read: "We are looking to adopt a grandmother who we want to take on holiday with us and go shopping. This has nothing to do with money, only love."

She said: "I don't know whether I will manage. I have a big heart but I cannot adopt all the grandmothers and grandfathers in the whole of Poland."