A frail grandad told of the "nightmare" of being stabbed by a burglar who stole £1,000 he had been saving to move to a safer area, in a town where people live in constant fear of break-ins.
Blackpool has the highest number of burglaries outside of London and major cities in the UK with 78.44 per 100,000 people, according to security experts Hiatt Hardware.
And in one incident a pensioner was found by police shaking after being dragged from his bed and stabbed in both ears by a masked intruder who took £1,000 in cash that he had hoped he could use to leave the area. He told detectives it was a "living nightmare".
