Police waited inside the home of an elderly robbery victim in a bid to catch two teenagers who snatched her handbag.

Officers were put on house-sitting duty because the thieves had an address for their victim as well as her house keys.

But they never turned up and today the search continued for the two boys of 14 or 15, who snatched the bag and are thought to be responsible for a second street mugging nearby.

The woman was walking in Glencathara Road, Bognor, just before 6.15pm on Friday when her bag was snatched.

A police spokesman said: "She was not physically hurt but was badly shaken."

Officers are linking the robbery with an incident in nearby Nelson Road at 4pm yesterday in which two teenagers stopped a man and asked if he had change.

When he pulled some money out of his pocket the youngsters snatched it and ran away.