A 20 YEAR OLD man smashed a Ribchester pub window after being thrown out following a disturbance.

Blackburn magistrates heard that Nicholas Edward Catlin accepted smashing the window at the White Bull in temper.

Catlin, of Preston Road, Grimsargh, pleaded guilty to damaging a window belonging to Gillian Meadows. He was fined £100 and ordered to pay £50 compensation and £55 costs.

Tom Snape, prosecuting, said witnesses described Catlin as the aggressor during an argument inside the White Bull at about 11.15 pm.

He was asked to leave but eventually the bar manager had to struggle with Catlin to get him out of the door.

"During the struggle a glass of red wine was knocked over and it splashed on people in the pub," said Mr Snape.

"Seconds after he had left the pub a window was smashed."

Jonathan Taylor, defending, said Catlin had been in the pub with a friend who was later arrested for a firearms offence.

"His friend had left with a female and my client was left by himself," said Mr Taylor.

"He ended up embroiled in an argument with some locals and accepts that after being thrown out he lashed out and smashed a window. That is the totality of hiss involvement with the incident."