POLICE want help in tracing two mid-teenage girls who stole a purse from an 83-year-old woman in a Colne charity shop.

The woman was in the Oxfam shop in Market Street at about 12.20pm on Wednesday, August 4 when the two girls offered to help pack her bags. While "helping'' they stole her purse containing £66 and her bus pass.

They are both white girls aged 15/16. One was well built with long auburn hair and ginger pencilled eyebrows. The other is 5ft 5ins, thin with curly mousey brown hair tied back. She is described as having a strange voice and accent.

Anyone with information is asked to ring Crimestoppers on 0800 555111.

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