POLICE are searching for a man who tried to snatch a pensioner's bag.
He grabbed it so hard that he broke the bag, but escaped empty-handed.
Police in Wotton-under-Edge are appealing for witnesses to the attempted robbery on Thursday, May 9.
It happened between 5.10pm and 5.20pm as a 68-year-old local woman was walking along the lane that leads between Long Street and Old Town.
Anyone who witnessed the incident is asked to call 101, quoting incident number 363 of May 9.