There are reports of a police incident on the A13.

Three cars, a minibus and a HGV were all in an area coned off be police, with one lane blocked.

The incident happened at about 11am at the junction of the A13 and Homestead Road, just past the McDonalds.

A witness said: "There were two police speaking to a couple in a the car right at the back and another police officer on the other side of the road.

"It didn't look like a crash because there wasn't damage to the car that I could see but I don't know it could have just been a shunt?

"Holding up traffic a fair bit, was queuing back to the Salvation Army fields on the Leigh border."