A hero shopkeeper gave armed robbers the boot by attacking them with his shoe.

Police praised the unnamed worker as they released CCTV of Saturday's raid at Mercury Service Station on Manchester Road in Westhoughton, Greater Manchester, showing him confronting the hooded, knife-wielding thieves.

Despite being outnumbered and stabbed in the arm, he whips his shoe off and forces them back towards the door of the service station. The robbers eventually flee empty-handed - being chased on to the forecourt by the worker wearing only one shoe.

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