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A knife-wielding robber gambled and lost when he tried to rob a bookmaker’s shop yesterday. For the man was confronted by a woman staff member and two other men helped wrestle him to the ground before he cut his losses and ran off empty-handed. A man...

An elderly female driver threatened by an extortionist dubbed “the motorcycle bandit” said yesterday that she had faced down the con artist. Christine Farrington, 86, was targeted by the man, who demanded money after he claimed she had hit his bike t...

Two men with bladed weapons robbed a Four Star Pizza deliveryman on Friday night. The two suspects approached the deliveryman near the top of Bostock Hill East in Paget and demanded money at about 10pm. A police spokesman said: “A small quantity of c...

Two pizza shop managers relived the terror of an attack yesterday by a robber who came at them with a piece of wood. John Mark Cantil was battered with the wood and had his wallet containing $170 stolen in the early hours of yesterday morning as he a...

A retired woman who fought off two bag snatchers said yesterday she felt “stronger” because she made a stand. The 64-year-old added she had no regrets about defending herself when she was targeted by two men on a motorbike. She admitted her attitude ...

A knife-wielding robber stole a chain from around the neck of a staff member at a livery cycle business yesterday. Police said a man went into Oleander Cycles in Southampton, near The Reefs hotel, and threatened an employee with a knife before a scuf...

Two men on a motorcycle are believed to be responsible for a string of attempted chain snatches. In the latest incident, they rode alongside a man and tried to grab a chain from his neck as he travelled south along Barker’s Hill, Devonshire, on Thurs...

A gun-toting robber stole cash from a store yesterday. The man, armed with a gun and wearing a motorcycle helmet, escaped with an undisclosed amount of cash from Just Rite Enterprises on Marsh Folly Road, by the junction with Factory Lane. It is unde...

A man and his accomplice stole cash from Belvin’s Variety in Smith’s yesterday. A police spokesman said officers received a report of a robbery at the Middle Road store at about 5pm. “It appears that a male walked into the store and stole money out o...

A robber terrorised four female staff and the general manager in a raid at an upmarket Southampton resort yesterday. The man, who was wearing a full-face helmet, threatened Pompano Beach Club staff with a knife and demanded access to the safe. The r...

Armed robbers struck at the Collector’s Hill Esso Service Station this morning in Smith’s, according to police. Officers responded at about 5.30am after two suspects, one apparently brandishing a bladed article, accosted staff members as they opened ...

Two armed robbers who shot a Bermudian-based businessman in his English home have been jailed. Charlie Simms was jailed for 20 years at Chelmsford Crown Court this week, and Christopher Bergin for 14 years, for the raid on Timothy Mardon’s Essex mans...