IMPROVEMENTS costing £43,000 are to be made to the traffic signals at a major road junction in Parr.

St Helens Council's Highways sub-committee has agreed the scheme for the complex junction at Parr Stocks Road/Chancery Lane/Fleet Lane.

Committee chairman, Councillor Terry Hanley said: "In the past three years there have been eight personal injury accidents recorded at this junction and we need to improve safety for vulnerable road users."

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