A two-year-old child escaped with minor injuries injury after a 17 metre wide shop hoarding collapsed on him at a popular Merseyside shopping centre.

The toddler was enjoying a day out with his father and grandparents at the Racecourse Retail Park at Aintree when the hoarding, which had been erected outside a new shop, overturned as the family were walking past, leaving them with cuts and bruises.

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