FALLEN trees and damage to a supermarket roof and a leisure centre have been among incidents caused in St Helens by the stormy weather over the past 48 hours.
On Sunday, due to a structural issue caused by the weather, Queens Park Health & Fitness was closed for around a couple of hours while staff conducted a clean up.
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Meanwhile, on Monday damage was caused to the roof of Home Bargains on Haydock Street, Newton-le-Willows.
PCSOs attended the store following the incident yesterday. The store is as open as normal.
St Helens Council has been dealing with numerous incidents of windblown trees blocking roads and lanes across the borough.
Incidents reported today (Tuesday) to St Helens include:
• Mill Lane, Rainhill - A large windblown tree from private property has blocked both lanes, the road has been closed at Tower College and the landowner has private contractors in situ removing the tree.
• Blundells Lane - A police report of one lane blocked by a large branch, this has now been made safe and removed.
• Eccleston Lane Ends School - A windblown tree from a neighbouring property has now been removed.
• The windblown trees at Longton Lane School & Delamere Avenue have now been removed
• Call out to Helenbank Drive at 4pm yesterday (Monday) some dead Hawthorn hedgerow covered in ivy fell blocking road - removed
• Branch down in Victoria Park - being dealt with
• Two fallen Sorbus trees at Broadway Eccleston (one had fallen and damaged the other) - removed
• Tree down in the old tennis courts wood - is safe and down, and will be dealt with as soon as possible
• Tree down corner of Pasture lane and The Rainford Bypass - is being dealt with
• Sankey Valley Park near Bradlegh Road car park tree down - is safe and down, and will be dealt with as soon as possible
• Corpus Christie School fallen branches into neighbours garden - is being dealt with
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