tricky CSS selection ... after br

Question

I have this piece of HTML code, I need to scrap via Css selection

<tr>
  <td>
     <a href="accessdatabase" data-linktype="relative-path">
      <img src="BLAH BLAH ">
        <br>
           <strong>NOT TO BE SELECTED</strong>
     </a>
  <br>TEXT TO BE SELECTED
</td>
</tr>

Any help will be welcome Please bare in mind that this is for web scrapping (aka:first-line will be of any help)

Thank YOU