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Roads officials said an "optical illusion appeared to have been created when the footway was extended next to the cycle lane".

About £170,000 of active travel budget was spent installing a wide footway along a stretch of the busy Clabby Road in Fivemiletown.

In a social media post, Merseyside Police said: "Both were dealt with for obstruction of the live lane and footway while the learner went to the shop."

"However the extended footway/double-yellow lines along Bedford Street was carried out as an experimental order which has now lapsed," a spokeswoman said.

It said the footway on Nursery Road's north side had never been signed as shared use and did not appear as a cycle route on council bike maps.