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Northumberland woman left 'homeless' after tree fell on home during Storm Malik

A Northumberland woman has been living in a hotel for several days and says that she is 'in limbo' after a tree fell onto the roof of her house.

Sam Taylor, a wheelchair services manager who lives in Cramlington, is facing swapping her home for rented accommodation for the next six months after a surveyor deemed the house 'uninhabitable.'

Storm Malik, in which winds of up to 90mph battered the North East, blew a horse chestnut tree onto Sam's roof on East Farm Terrace on January 29 and she has been living in a Premier Inn ever since.

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