Three arrested over armed shop raids 

Three men were arrested in the early hours of this morning (March 14) over a series of armed shop raids in which staff were threatened with an axe.Police were alerted to two attempted robberies in less than an hour last night – first at Nisa in Kitts Green Road at 8.40pm followed by Co-Op in Walmley Close, Sutton Coldfield.On both occasions staff were grabbed by a man and threatened with a hand axe before fleeing empty handed; no-one was injured during the attacks.A West Midlands Police Ar