A WOMAN was left with a black eye after a man attacked her outside her house on Sutton Way, Great Sutton, on January 2.

The man tried to grab the woman's handbag but failed and made off empty-handed.

A man was set upon by a group of 16 males in an assault close to Stanney High School on Sunday.

A man received cuts to his neck and face after being attacked near The Woodlands pub, Chester Road, on Friday evening.

Two men were jumped on by a group of males while walking along Thirlmere Road, Whitby, on Saturday night.

A youth punched a man in the face after leaning through the victim's van window at a junction on Clayhill Green, Little Neston, on Sunday.

Ten caravans were broken into at The Hooton Park Trust, The Hangers, West Road, Hooton overnight on Sunday January 2.

Burglars broke into a house on Eccleston Avenue while the owner slept upstairs and stole two camera phones and a DVD player on Saturday night; a boiler was stolen from premises on Cambridge Road on Sunday; a DVD player and a stereo were stolen from a house on Thornton Road on Sunday; a number of garages on Gawsworth Road, Great Sutton, were entered after their locks were sheared off on Sunday; an off-road motorcycle was stolen from an outbuilding of a property on Margarets Lane, Childer Thornton on Sunday; £1,000 in cash was stolen from a house on Seymour Drive on Monday; properties on Whitby Road and Lupus Way were broken into on Tuesday; a digital camera worth £500 was stolen from a house of The Boulevard, Great Sutton on Wednesday and walking equipment was taken from a shed on Capenhurst Lane, Whitby, on Monday.

Two cars were broken into at Vauxhall Sports & Social Club on Friday. A mobile phone, wallet and bag were stolen from a Ford Escort and cash, CDs, glasses, clothes and a mobile phone were stolen from a silver Corsa; car thieves slashed the soft top of a Porsche Boxster and stole a CD player outside The Vue on The Coliseum on Saturday; a red Vauxhall Cavalier, registration G688VDB, was stolen from Frome Court between December 31 and January 3; a brick was thrown through the windscreen of a Nissan Micra parked on Merton Road, Great Sutton, on Tuesday, January 4.

A Ford car landed on its roof after hitting the roundabout near the junction at the A5117 on Thursday evening. The driver was treated and taken to the Countess of Chester Hospital.