A WOMAN is facing prison after admitting to burgling a house in Accrington.

Magistrates heard Carla Jayne Ball, 31, of Commercial Street, Oswaldtwistle, stole tobacco,mobile telephones, a sewing machine, cash and personal effects to the value of £436.92 after breaking into the house in Richmond Street on May 4.

She was remanded in custody to be sentenced at Burnley Crown Court on July 28.

Ball also admitted to failing to surrender to custody at Blackburn Magistrates Court on June 1.

Blackburn magistrates issued a warrant for her arrest after she failed without reasonable excuse to appear before them.

For that offence she was fined £50 and ordered to pay a £30 victim surcharge. No order for prosecution costs was made.

A second charge of failing to surrender to custody was withdrawn.