STAFF at a Walkden video shop were forced to hand over cash after being threatened with a spanner and a car jack.

The three robbers burst into the Blockbusters store in Ellesmere Centre at 8.30pm last night and took cash from the till, and a handbag.

They escaped in a white Astra car which had earlier been stolen from the Watergate Toll pub in Over Hulton.

The car was later found abandoned in an alleyway at Harriot Street, Walkden.

The robbers are white, were wearing dark clothing and one man carrying a spanner had a large build.