A GANG of knife robbers has struck another off licence making it the fourth armed robbery in less than a week.

The latest in the string of robberies took place at Bargain Booze on Marsh House Lane, Orford at around 10.30pm on Monday when two of the youths entered the shop while a third waited by the door outside.

The two men threatened the shop assistants, two women aged 19 and 41, with a large kitchen knife before stealing a three-figure sum of cash and cigarettes.

There were no customers in the shop at the time.

They fled the shop in an unknown direction and it is not known if they used a vehicle to leave the scene.

Police have described the offenders as white men in their mid to late teens, dressed all in black wearing black balaclavas.

Anyone in the vicinity at the time of the robbery and saw anything suspicious or who is able to identify the robbers is asked to call DC James Thompson at Warrington CID on 01244 615859 or Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555111.