A GROUP of youths followed a 17 year old boy and his friend from the UCI cinema before attacking them in the street.

While walking in Peddars Lane, Ashton-on-Ribble on Monday, January 20, at 9.45pm, the group struck the 17 year old once with a plank of wood, causing a cut to the back of his head.

The group then followed the boys to a nearby shop, where the pair had gone to call the police, before making off into a nearby park.

The first man was white, 5ft 9ins tall, skinny with bleached blonde hair. He was wearing a blue hooded top, with a Fred Perry jumper over the top, blue tracksuit pants and white trainers.

His accomplice was white, 5ft 10 ins tall, stocky with brown hair gelled forward. He wore a dark blue jumper with four or five horizontal pale blue stripes across the front and tracksuit pants.