RAM-raiders' plans to steal a cash machine from a Herefordshire pub came crashing down around them last Friday.

The bungling would-be thieves' vehicle became trapped at the Yew Tree Inn and Len Gee's Restaurant, Priors Frome, when they rammed the porch too hard with their car at around 5.30am.

The pub's Len Gee said: "There's a big porch on the front of the building that houses the machine. The ram raiders reversed their car a bit too fast. They were hoping to just bash the door down but they more or less knocked the porch down."

It took a crew of fire fighters from Hereford around an hour to free the car. Police also attended the scene.