St Helens Parish Council has given its support to plans to turn a former service station on Lower Green Road into four new flats.

Emergency services were called to St Helens late on Monday morning after a car collided with a skip.

A disused garage and workshop in St Helens could soon be given a new lease of life – with plans submitted to turn the site into four much-needed flats.

Plans for five new houses on land next to the former train station in St Helens have sparked a wave of objections ahead of a council decision next month.