VANDALS damaged two businesses on opposite sides of the street.

One yob smashed a door at the Co-op in Market Street, Westhoughton, and then a window was cracked at the branch of True Shone and Kerr estate agents directly opposite.

Both happened on January 28 at around 6am just weeks after another business on the same street was burgled twice.

Stacey Kerr, director of the estate agents, said: “Someone had thrown concrete at our windows and I’m sat in front of a boarded up window now. There were three pieces of concrete at the foot of the window.

“We have no idea why someone would do this. We don’t think it was a burglary attempt.

“Somebody did say there had been some kind of disturbance in Market Street that night but I have not heard anything about it.

“The police came on that Saturday morning and we have heard nothing from them since.”

She said the cost of replacing the large pane of glass would be £1,500.

A police spokeswoman said: “Officers were called just before 6am to Co-op on Market Street on January 28 to reports of damage to a glass door. The offender has appeared to have used a stone from the pavement which has then become lodged in the door. Investigations are ongoing.

“Officers were also called at 6.10am to True Shone and Kerr estate agents where a window was cracked using what appears to be a piece of concrete. Investigations are ongoing.”

The street has Westhoughton Town Council-funded CCTV cameras and police will be looking at footage to identify the culprit.

It follows two break-ins in the space of a week over the Christmas period at JG Studio, another business in Market Street, where intruders ransacked the premises and stole appliances and products worth more than £2,000 along with the proceeds of a Bolton Hospice raffle. True Shone and Kerr have had their frontages smashed before — when an out-of-control silver Mercedes ploughed through one of the panes in May, 2015.