A THIEF snatched a 63-year-old woman's handbag as she walked along a street in Leigh.
She had been shopping at Asda when a man came up behind her in Priory Avenue, near Westleigh High School, at 4.50pm on Tuesday.
He grabbed her handbag but she refused to let go and was thrown to the ground in a struggle. She suffered minor bruising.
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