RAMRAIDERS fled empty handed from a designer shoe shop after failing to disable a state-of-the-art security system.

Specialist children's footwear shop Mini Me on Holcombe Brook Precinct was broken into just after midnight on Sunday.

Business partner, Mrs Heather Peet (31), told the Bury Times: "Thank goodness for the alarm system. We pay extra for the alarm to go straight through to a monitoring station and to the police and it paid off. They were here within six minutes. The raiders had fled taking nothing."

It is thought the thieves used a Ford Focus car to force open the metal shutters and then used a type of welder. A crowbar was used to smash the glass window.

Mini Me was opened in March of this year by Mrs Peet and her neighbour Mrs Carry Burrows, who both live in Holcombe Brook.

Mrs Peet said: "At first I thought they had fled with the school stock, which we would not have been able to replace in time. But all we suffered was the damage to the door and some of the display shoes we will not be able to sell because they may have fragments of glass in them.

"The cost of the damage is being assessed and we are hoping to re-open today (Tuesday Aug 12)."

Police said they are keen to speak to anyone who may have seen two masked men attack the shop. Anyone with information should contact Bury CID on 0161 856 8150 or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.