TESCO in Belmont was forced to shut early last night following a water leak.

A reader filmed this video of water gushing out onto Abbotsmead Road in Hereford yesterday.

A Tesco spokesman said: “We closed our Abbotsmead Road Superstore early at 8pm yesterday as we had to turn off the water supply following a fault with the sprinklers in our storage area.

"The fault has now been rectified and the store is open and trading as normal this morning.”

A Welsh Water spokesman said: “We were called last night to investigate a leak at the Tesco store on Abbotsmead Road, Hereford. We found that the leak had occurred on pipework within the store which is the responsibility of the store to repair. 

"However, to assist them with the repair, we temporarily isolated their supply.  Their repair has been completed and the water supply restored to normal.”