A VILLAGE pub was among the targets in a crime wave that has rocked the Chester area.
Manager Duncan Falconer was woken by a man brandishing a crowbar during an attempted burglary at The Goshawk Pub in Mouldsworth.
But the incident was only one among many which kept police busy.
Other serious incidents include:
* City centre patrols were stepped up after a woman was attacked in her own bed when an intruder broke into her flat.
* Police believe a different attacker was responsible for a sexual assault on a woman walking near the Mill Hotel a few hours earlier.
* A robbery at Chester station in which a Blacon mother working at the Trekkers cafe was tied up, doused in lighter fuel and threatened she would be set alight.
* An arson attack at a nursing home.
*A serious assault at The Cross when a man suffered cuts to his neck.
An 18-year-old man was arrested and granted police bail following the incident at The Cross but arrests have yet to be made in relation to the other offences.
