A mum-of-one was horrified when she looked out her window after hearing loud bangs while watching television with her husband.
Nikki Shield was at home with her husband, Mel, on Tuesday, March 21, when she heard seven or eight loud bangs come from outside their home in a cul-de-sac on Canning Road in Southport. She told the ECHO: "It was just before 9pm, me and my husband were watching TV.
"We heard seven or eight loud bangs and then when my husband ran outside he saw two people running out our driveway and out the cul de sac. We had no idea what was going on. We just assumed it was something else and nothing to do with us."