A TREE narrowly avoided parked cars after coming down in a Hereford residential street today.

The tree came down in Ryelands Street at around 11am this morning after winds from Storm Francis battered the county.

One resident, who asked not to be named, who had popped to Sainsbury's when the tree came down outside her house and where she usually parks her car.

A Balfour Beatty van which was in the area helped the woman to access her property.

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