A YOUNG man was left with cuts to his face after being attacked by three men on Foxhall Road, Blackpool, last week.

At around 9.55pm on November 10 the men approached the young man and demanded he hand over his jacket.

One of the men produced a weapon, believed to be a knife of some kind and started attacking him.

The three attackers ran off when a passer-by intervened but the youth sustained cuts above his right eye.

The first attacker is described as Afro Caribbean, 6ft 3ins tall and aged between 20-25 years. He was skinny with a skinhead haircut and spoke with a deep voice. The second wore a green bubble jacket and the third wore a deer stalker type hat.

A YOUTH stole an elderly lady's handbag in Lytham before pushing her to the floor on November 11. He approached the lady at the front entrance of Liggard Court, Mythop Road, at about 10.45am where the theft took place. The lady was left on the floor until she was discovered by other residents.

He is described as being aged around 15, 5ft 7ins, proportionate build, mousy blond hair and wearing a grey waist-length cloth-type coat. AN ELDERLY gentlemen had a close shave with a conman who claimed he was from a double glazing company on November 10. The pensioner, from Carr Road, Kirkham, opened his front door and the man walked past him saying he had come to measure for double glazing ordered by his son.

He walked around the house measuring but the owner would not leave him unaccompanied. When the resident refused to give a deposit the conman left.

The man was approximately 30 years old, 5ft 4ins, medium build with dark coloured hair. He spoke with a Scottish accent and was wearing a black woolly bobble hat, a blue boiler suit with paint stains, a black jumper and blue gloves. He was driven off by a second man aged around 30 years.

AT 8pm on November 9, a 12-year-old boy was standing in a busy bus queue in Abingdon Street, Blackpool, holding a distinctive box of toy figures.

Once he was on the bus two teenagers assaulted him, causing injuries, and stole the model figures from the box. The first was aged around 14, 5ft tall with short blond hair wearing a Reebok coat which was blue in the middle and red on the sides. The second was aged 15, 5ft 1ins-5ft 3ins tall with short, black, spiky hair.