POLICE have issued a description of a man wanted in connection with theft of cash from a 73-year-old man.
The thief talked his way into the pensioner's home in Peers Clough Road, Lumb, Rossendale, by saying he was interested in old watches.
The pensioner showed him into the living room but the man left the house almost immediately.
On his way out he took a brown leather wallet from the pocket of a jacket hanging in the hallway of the bungalow.
The wallet contained £60 cash, an Abbey National cash card and a bus pass, both in the name of G Heys.
Police described the thief as white, about 40-years-old, 5ft 6ins tall, of stocky build, clean shaven, with fair hair and a fair complexion. He spoke with a Rossendale accent.
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