Streetly post office hit by raiders with axe

Two masked men armed with an axe robbed a West Midland post office, escaping with a £23,000 cash haul.

The balaclava-clad robbers pounced on a delivery driver dropping cash boxes off at Streetly's Blackwood Road Post Office yesterday morning. The raiders grabbed the driver and held the axe inches from his face.

The terrified owner of the post office, Suki Dhillon, aged 29, said the crime unfolded in a 30-second blur.