Four men who broke into a home and threatened a family with axes, leaving them in ‘shock’ and ‘distress’ are being hunted by police.

Police are appealing to find two lump hammer brandishing robbers who raided their way into a Wigan hotel on bank holiday Monday.

Users of social networking sites are being urged by Greater Manchester Police to come forward with information surrounding an attempted armed robbery at a Oldham jewellers.

A terrified 61-year-old shopworker was held at gunpoint while an armed robber stole cash and cigarettes from a store in Rochdale in the early hours of Monday morning.

The hunt is on to find a knifepoint carjacker who left the owner of a van ‘shaken’ after a frightening daylight robbery in Rochdale town centre.

Two thieves armed with a knife and a crowbar robbed a Salford shop worker, stealing and torching his car last night.

A bumbling robber short changed himself on Sunday when he dropped handfuls of cash on a car park floor, after holding up the Tesco in Heywood at gun point.

A masked thief made an arse of a robbery when he exposed his face – and his underwear – during an armed raid on a newsagents in Levenshulme.

Officers want to trace Peter Thomas 27, in connection with a string of armed robberies at businesses predominately in the Stockport area of Greater Manchester

Four balaclava-clad men ripped their winnings from cash drawers at Mecca Bingo on Breightmet Fold Lane, Bolton, at around 7.10pm before fleeing in a stolen blue Volvo estate.

Around 8.15pm, on June 13, two men driving a dark blue Ford Focus pulled up outside Coral bookmakers on Moston Lane, Manchester.