A 92-year-old woman who was mugged as she walked to mass has told her attacker to "pull himself together and look for a job".

Great-grandmother Mary Forrester, who uses a walking stick, also said she would not be put off attending church as a result of her ordeal.

The pensioner was assaulted in Kelvindale Road, Glasgow, as she walked to St Gregory's Church just before 0900 BST on Sunday.

Mary Forrester: "Pull yourself together"

Her attacker got away with her handbag which contained two sets of Rosary beads, one from the Catholic shrine of Lourdes, and a black prayer book.

Mrs Forrester said: "I was going to mass at St Gregory's and I never heard anything at my back.

"I was knocked down onto the road and he took my handbag.

"He did not get any money, just my prayer book and my rosaries."

Mrs Forrester said she usually walked to church with some of her friends but two of them were in hospital and she decided to travel alone to mass, which she attends every day.

'Could have been worse'

She was taken to the city's Western Infirmary where she was treated for a minor head injury before being discharged.

Speaking from her flat in the Kelvindale area, she added: "Fortunately there was not a great deal of damage but it could have been an awful lot worse."

Asked if she had a message for the man who attacked her, she said: "He should pull himself together and look for a job."

Detectives have issued a partial description of the robber.

He was white, in his late teens or early 20s, about 5ft 4in tall and was wearing a light coloured baseball cap.