DETECTIVES are hunting an armed man who tried to rob a Bolton Post Office today.

The raider, wearing a balaclava mask, struck at Darcy Lever Post Office, Radcliffe Road, shortly before 10.30am. He he fled empty handed after the cashier locked herself in a rear room. No-one from the Post Office was available for comment.

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