A POCKET watch of “great sentimental value” and a football medal were among the items stolen from a pensioner’s home after it was burgled.

Police are appealing for information after the 72-year-old man’s house was broken into in Accrington on the evening of Sunday, January 11.

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The incident in Ashworth Street happened between 5.15pm and 7.45pm when an offender broke into the terraced house by smashing a window at the back of the property, police said.

A black Compaq laptop computer, a gold pocket watch and a football medal were taken in the raid.

The Waltham pocket watch has been described by officers as gold plated, with the glass face cover missing and a double Albert chain.

The watch also has a football medal attached to it in the name of F.R.Ratcliffe.