A 34-year-old woman was arrested and charged with a breach of the peace after police who were called to a domestic incident found her holding an ornament above her head and threatening to hit her partner.

Blackburn magistrates heard the man was sitting on the arm of a chair as Louise Marie Harrison stood with the large ornament in her hand and told police "I'm going to beat him with it."

Harrison, of Watery Lane, Darwen, admitted a breach of the peace and was bound over in the sum of £100 to keep the peace for six months.

John Greenwood, defending, said Harrison, a mother of two, works as a care assistant and as a result of the incident had been in the cells for nearly two days.

"I don't think there was ever any prospect of her actually assaulting her co-habitee and it is perhaps a case of least said soonest mended," said Mr Greenwood.