PSNI investigate robberies in Belfast and Co Antrim
Police in West Belfast have begun a search for two men who held up a shopkeeper and made off with a sum of money.
They threatened the man with a hammer before escaping with a cash box.
Meanwhile, in Co Antrim, a man was arrested after he held up staff and stole from a shop in Ballyclare.
The man, armed with a crowbar, was seen by an off-duty officer as he tried to make his getaway in a car.