MASKED robbers beat up a Cheshire postmaster's wife to force her husband to hand over thousands of pounds from the post office safe.

Police are alarmed by the amount of violence used during the crime at Elton. The car used by the thieves was a silver two-litre Ford Sierra, stolen five days earlier from Port Sunlight.

The Sierra was later found abandoned on farmland three miles away. A big reward is being offered for information leading to arrest and conviction.

CLAIRE House will be taking part in the BT Voices for Hospice service at Thornton Parish Church on October 18. Claire House also has a charity shop in Saughall Massie Road, Upton.

MERSEYSIDE Police are on the look out for parents wrongly parked outside schools as part of the campaign to improve child road safety.

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