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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Alex Wood & Susie Beever

Brits on country's steepest street have to tie cars to lamp posts and even SKI down it

If you thought battling the icy roads this week was a nightmare, then spare a thought for these neighbours.

This is Britain's steepest street, where getting home means either slamming the gas to the floor or getting in a monster workout.

Residents on Bristol's Vale Street have to park horizontally and are even known to tie their cars to lampposts when there's ice on the roads so they don't lose their motors to gravity.

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