Masked robbers threatened two female shop workers with a machete during a terrifying robbery at Fartown Junction News newsagents last night.

The attack happened at 9.50pm in the Spaines Road store when two men wearing balaclavas  burst in and demanded the staff hand over cash and produced the foot-long knife in front of them.

But the robbers could not open the till and fled empty handed.

Anyone with information should call Huddersfield CID on 101.