A LANCASTER university student had to have pins stapled into his head after he was glassed in a campus bar.

The 26-year-old man had been drinking in the popular Fylde Bar when two men started an argument with him. One of the men then smashed a glass on the back of the victim's head. Paramedics rushed the student to the RLI where casualty staff had to staple the deep cuts together.

Police are appealing for witnesses to the attack which took place at about 11.45pm on Monday night to come forward. Call Lancaster Police on 01524 63333. A 21-YEAR-OLD woman was smashed in the face with a ripped off car side mirror and rushed to hospital on Monday night.

Paramedics dashed the woman from Harcourt Road, Lancaster to the casualty department of the RLI. The attack, which took place at about 8.45pm on Monday night, was not reported to the police. Boy robbed

of just 11p A ROBBER terrified a Morecambe boy for just 11 pence last week.

The robber confronted the 14-year-old in the ginnel between Coniston Road/St Andrews Grove and demanded cash and cigarettes before making off with the boy's 11p. The attacker is described as 17, 5ft 5ins, skinny, crooked teeth, short brown hair, wearing white baseball cap worn back to front, faded ripped blue jeans, black leather boots with holes. He was riding a mountain bike. A FLASHER exposed himself to a group of schoolgirls and asked for sexual favours in Morecambe recently.

The flasher hat greying, greasy hair and plump cheeks and was between 30 and 40 years old. He was 5ft 6in to 5ft 10in tall, medium build, possibly balding, wearing jeans and either a dark white striped sweatshirt or dark blue 'Ellesse' jacket with green and white stripes on the sleeves. A BOY was attacked in an alleyway with a garden fork at 11pm last week.

The 16-year-old suffered scratch marks to his forehead and pain to the rear of his head as a result of the attack on the alleyway on Albert Road, Morecambe.

The culprit is described as male, early twenties, average build, short dark hair, wearing blue jeans, black jacket and white training shoes.

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