A SECOND bookmaker shop has been targeted by armed robbers in an Essex town.
A SECOND bookmaker shop has been targeted by armed robbers in an Essex town.
A robber threatened two female members of staff with an 8inc knife in the Ladbrokes shop in Clay Hill Road, Basildon, at about 8pm last night.
He made off with a three figure sum of cash.
On Wednesday evening another Ladbrokes shop, in Timberlog Lane, was held up at gunpoint.
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