HODDED robbers held three terrified store workers at gun point in a raid on a Kwik Save.

But the two raiders carrying a sawn-off shot gun, a hand gun and a crow bar fled when they realised the safe at the store in Blackburn could not be opened.

Brave Sharron Ashby completed a whirlwind romance with a fairytale wedding after fighting back from the brink of death.

Sharron from Blackburn married soldier Lee Read after being struck down by a viral illness which left her partially blind and deaf.