Good evening, these are the latest ECHO headlines on Wednesday, October 6 to keep you up to date.
'Parents' fight outside school gates in front of upset children
Police surrounded the entrance to a school after a fight 'between parents' broke out outside the gates.
READ MORE: Boy rushed to hospital after dog attack in Liverpool park
Merseyside Police were called out to The Prescot School on Park Lane, on Tuesday, October 5 after claims of a disturbance were reported at around 2.45pm.
Police have confirmed a fight broke out between a group of people outside the school, but no injuries were confirmed.
A spokesperson for Prescot School said: “We are aware of an incident outside of our school yesterday, however we can say it did not involve any of our students."
One person reported seeing parents 'shouting, threatening, swearing and cars speeding off' from the scene, while others reported seeing "six to seven" police cars at the scene.
The school has not confirmed the suggestion the incident involved parents.
Following the incident many parents posted their concerns on Facebook with one parent calling the scene "unsettling".
The parent posted: “Picking my daughter up from school it was definitely unsettling seeing all the police vehicles screaming around.
“Since they’ve gone back it’s been an absolute nightmare with all children finishing at the same time."
Another parents said her child had been "traumatised" by the incident.
Read the full story HERE.
Boy rushed to hospital after dog attack in Liverpool park
A boy was rushed to hospital after being bitten by a dog in a Liverpool park.
Emergency services rushed to the scene of Crown street Park in Edge Hill at around 3.25pm today after it was reported a child was bitten by a dog.
Once at the scene, officers and paramedics found a boy had been bitten and he was rushed to hospital.
His injuries are not believed to be life threatening.
Merseyside Police arrested a 20 year old man from Liverpool on suspicion of Section 3, Possessing a Dangerous Dog Out of Control.
He was taken into custody where he will be questioned by police.
A dog was also seized by officers at the scene.
Read the full story HERE.
Schoolgirl taken on dad's 100 mile cocaine debt road trip
A cocaine addict ordered to drive money to Liverpool to clear a drug debt took his schoolgirl daughter along for the ride.
James Liversedge also made the journey from Yorkshire with friend Andrew Dunstan - who had "nothing better to do".
But when he dropped the money off he was told to take almost a kilogram of cocaine back in the other direction - a haul discovered by police when he was then stopped him on the M62.
Liverpool Crown Court heard a package of white powder was recovered from the vehicle driven by Liversedge when he was stopped on July 9.
Nardeen Nemat, prosecuting, said: "At around 7.50pm in the evening police officers were on patrol in a police vehicle on the M62 near to Junction 7 in St Helens.
"They received some information that a Ford Fiesta which had been linked to the theft of motor vehicles in Rotherham had had an ANPR (automatic number plate recognition) hit in the Merseyside area."
It was believed the vehicle was travelling on the M62 and the patrol then spotted the car heading eastbound and followed it before halting it near Junction 11.
The vehicle was searched and a 982.72g package of cocaine of 82% purity, valued between £34,000 and £40,000, was recovered.
Both defendants admitted possession with intent to supply cocaine.
Read the full story HERE.
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