Police were called to reports of a shooting  outside the Village Hotel, Cheadle, Stockport. A man in his 50s has been taken to hospital for treatment of injuries to his leg and back.

The footage shows four men arriving at a street in Richmond, south-west London on two motorbikes before two jump off and wait in a side street and confront the woman as she walks past.

Nathan Gilmaney, 19, and Troy Thomas, 18, tried to rob as many people as possible in London on October 16 last year, leaving a trail of destruction in their wake.

EXCLUSIVE: The robbers walked brazenly up to the man in Edgware, north London and told him ‘we’re here to rob you’ before taking his watch and phone.

New cases shine a light on the novel modus operandi of these criminal gangs: they are now going for middle-class parents on the school run.

Five gang members will be sentenced this morning after police caught them with machetes, baseball bats and knives in West London, where they were preparing an attack on Shepherd’s Bush rivals.

The two moped thieves, wearing all-black clothing and motorcycle helmets, smashed the driver seat of the comedian’s £125,000 Range Rover while he was out on the school run yesterday.

EXCLUSIVE: While stunned shoppers looked, at least four passersby try their best to stop and delay the raiders, who targeted the Watches of Watches of Switzerland in Regent Street.

McIntyre fell out of the car and appeared to try to fight off the robbers in Golders Green, North West London, a witness said. The thugs are thought to have fled with the 42-year-old’s designer watch.

More than 23,000 offences by criminals using mopeds took place last year in London, up from 827 in 2012, with more than 40 per cent happening in Camden and Islington.