TWO thieves, claiming to be from the water board, entered the home of an 88-year-old woman in Belton Hill, Fulwood.

The bogus officials, who struck at 10.10am on Wednesday, June 13, stole cash while pretending to carry out tests.

They were both white, one was 21 and 5ft 10ins with dark hair in a crew cut, wearing jeans and a dark top. His accomplice was dark, 40 and 5ft 8ins and of stocky build.

In a separate incident on the same day at 2.50pm, a deaf and dumb woman was robbed in her flat in Dawson Walk, Preston.

The thief, who broke in, was white with collar length fair hair, a round baby face and pale complexion. He was about 30, 5ft 3ins and was wearing a red anorak with white stripes on the sleeves.

Two muggers, one with a screwdriver, threatened and punched a man before stealing his wallet, as he walked down St John's Place, on Tuesday, June 2 at 10.30 am.

One was white, 28 years old and 5ft 8ins. He was wearing blue and white tracksuit trousers and a light blue Gore-tex jacket. The other was 5ft 5ins, white, and wearing denim jeans and an orange T-shirt.

A man hiding in bushes next to the Lime Kiln pub in Aqueduct Street, pulled down his trousers and exposed himself to a woman, at 2.38pm on Sunday June 3.

He was 5ft 9ins, white, in his late forties with grey hair and a beer belly. He was wearing a blue checked shirt and jeans.

A drunk approached a 16-year-old boy while he stood at the bus stop, by the Post Office in Garstang Road, Preston, and took his hand, asking him to go with him to his flat in Tag Lane.

When he refused the drunk punched him several times in the face.

He is described as white and in his late twenties, of medium build with short brown hair and wearing a black ski-jacket with yellow and green stripes on the sleeves and a purple collar.

Two youths stole a Vauxhall Astra parked in Daisy Meadow, Bamber Bridge, at 3.25am on Tuesday June 12, then abandoned it, upside down.

They were white males, 18 to 19 years, wearing dark clothing.