DOCTORS hope to have saved the sight in a 10-year-old girl's eye after she was struck in the face with a piece of masonry.

Nadia Butler, of Birch Street, Bacup, was walking into the Day and Nite store on the corner of Union Street and King Street when she heard a thud as a car was being pelted by a group of youths.

When she turned to see what was happening she was hit in the face by one of the missiles.

She is being cared for on the children's ward of Burnley General Hospital.

Her grandmother Norah Butler said: "She is doing a lot better. If things keep as they are we might be able to have her home this week.

"They have cleared a lot of blood from her eye and she will be having a sight test today, but we are hopeful that they have managed to save her eye.

"The doctors have worked really hard because it was really bad at one stage and the eye just kept on haemorrhaging.

"Last night was the first night I have had a proper sleep since it happened and her father has been with her in the hospital all the time."

Norah said Nadia's classmates all made individual get well cards and she has recceived cards from her optician at Crowther's and many people whom she doesn't know.

Police are hoping to make progress with their inquiries today.