A BURGLAR dived head-first through a window as he was chased by a landlord armed with a fistful of pool cues.

"I couldn't believe it," said Leslie Dodd, licensee of the George Hotel, in Darwen Street, Blackburn. "He literally dived straight through."

Mr Dodd was asleep in bed when he was disturbed shortly before 4am today by creaking floorboards on the landing and then saw a light flashing.

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