A 10-YEAR-OLD girl who was struck in the face with a brick has been ordered to stay off school because her retina has been found to be torn in two places.

Nadia Butler was hoping to return to St Mary's RC School, Bacup, to rejoin her classmates but when saw doctors at Rossendale Hospital she was told to have complete rest so that hopefully the torn parts will repair themselves.

Nadia was going into the Day and Nite Store on the corner of King Street and Union Street, Bacup, on November 18 when she was hit in the face.

The impact caused her eye to haemorrhage and she spent a week in Burnley General Hospital having a needle inserted into her eye to have blood clots removed.

Nadia, who lives with her gran Norah Butler at Birch Street, Bacup, will have to wait until December 19, when she next sees her consultant to find out if the tears have repaired and if her vision has improved.

Early tests indicated she had lost 10 per cent of her vision, but Norah has been told a problem with the muscles in her eye should hopefully repair itself.

Norah said: "I have been told that she must rest, no exercise and do nothing too strenuous, so she had been writing her Christmas cards and I have been trying to keep her occupied. But she is bored.

"They said she can't go back to school because if she was in the schoolyard and say got knocked then it could repair all the work that the consultant has done."