Where has all my iCloud space gone?

Since a few weeks, I have been experiencing issues with iCloud. My free storage space seems to just vanish.
I currently own an iPad 2 and an iPod touch (3rd generation), I used to back up both devices with iCloud, but a few weeks ago, I kept getting a message stating that there was not enough storage space left to back up my devices. Today, I found the time to investigate the matter, and I started with removing both back-ups from iCloud. I figured that would possibly help, but it only made things worse. Right now, I can't backup either of my devices, because iCloud states I have only got about 1MB left for storage. But when I check with iCloud manager for Windows or on either of my devices, I am only using about 50 to 60 MB's. The strangest part is the fact that, when I removed the backups, the storage space I had left grew, but then almost instantly, it started getting less and less, untill now, when iCloud says I only have less than 1MB left!
Can anyone help me on this one?
Thanks in advance
Job
I added two screenshots from my iPad, which show the problem.

Very odd. Both WhatSize and OmniDiskSweeper are often the recommended options for viewing drive contents in exactly this sort of situation, where finding something like an untrimmed log file that has consumed all but a small amount of free space has otherwise proven difficult.
However, since disk utilities did not report any errors, at least we know that the drive is OK. We can also surmise that the issue isn't merely that the Finder is mis-reporting free space since at the outset you remarked that the system had become very sluggish - a common indicator of minimal free space.
I have encountered broadly similar issues before, caused by such things as a file in the trash that could not be emptied but which was not visible when opening the trash to examine it, and File Vault (if you have it turned on, turn it off and try WhatSize again) but clearly you've tried all the common and tried and tested means to identify the specific cause of the lost space - leaving nothing obvious to suggest.
You mentioned that you have an external to which you could copy your data, and it occurs to me that it would be interesting to know if you were to use Carbon Copy Cloner (from versiontracker) to backup your internal drive to the external, how much space the backup would take, since if the sizing utilities can't find the extra data, CCC may also not. If you were to try that, you would end up with a bootable external which at least would allow you to dig around in the data without fear of loosing something important.

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