A HEALTHCARE worker has been targeted by vandals for a second time after parking on a residential street because of a shortage of spaces at Derby's new super hospital.

The woman had her car damaged for the first time in May after parking in Dean Close.

Now her car has been targeted again after she left it in Cordon Avenue.

Her husband, Ted Bagshaw, of Haven Baulk Avenue, Littleover, said his wife – who did not wish to be named – was not entitled to a permit because she lived near the hospital.

But he said the two-and-a-half-mile trip to the hospital was too far to walk.

The 61-year-old said: "This time another £200 to £250-worth of damage [was] done with a bladed instrument of some sort as before. The idiots have struck again."

A police spokeswoman said the vandalism, on Friday, was one of at least 10 similar incidents during the past two months.

She said most of the cars belonged to hospital staff and had been parked in a number of streets, including Chain Lane and Muirfield Drive.

The incidents coincide with changes at the hospital leading to a lack of parking spaces.