Raiders broke into a post office and tried to smash open the safe before setting off the alarm.

The intruders used an angle grinder in a botched attempt to break open the safe at Great Clifton post office, near Workington on Saturday.

The bungling burglars set off the alarm at the shop after they entered the building at 4am by breaking the padlock on the door.

About £80 in coins was stolen in the raid.