A WOMAN alleged to have glassed a neighbour in the face said the man had punched her hard, knocking out a tooth.

Susan Tuke said the blow to her face had left her traumatised and she had no recollection of the actual fight.

She denied deliberately glassing neighbour Ian Black after he had gone to her house to rebuke her for calling his 12 year-old daughter names.

Appearing at Bolton Crown Court Tuke, aged 36, now of St James Street Farnworth, denies unlawfully wounding Mr Black at her then house in Telford Crescent, Leigh, last December.

Tuke said she had become "wound up" by children, including Mr Black's daughter, constantly throwing stones at her windows.

She said she regretted getting involved in an argument with a child but denied calling the girl a "two bit slapper" or a "tart".

She said that Mr Black was a bully and she stood up to him because he was pushing her on her own doorstep.

She claimed she did not glass Mr Black, adding that the wine glass must have smashed against the wall when they were struggling on the doorstep.

She denied being aggressive and denied swearing at him when he knocked at her door. She could not remember spitting at him but accepted that witnesses had seen her spit at Mr Black.

Mr Black claimed Tuke spat at him and smashed a sherry glass in his face.

He told police he thought she was going to hit him again so he punched her in the face and left to get help.

He was taken to hospital where he received stitches to his chin and internal stitches inside his mouth.

The case continues.