A feisty shop assistant had a real-life "Crocodile Dundee" moment when she produced her own blade to scare off a knife-wielding robber.

Fearless Lorraine McCalliskey, 36, turned the tables on the hooded thug after telling him: "Come on then, let's have a go if you want to have a go."

Lorraine - who was on her own - refused to be cowed when the crook walked into her corner shop and produced a steak knife.

He tried to order her to open up the till but fled empty-handed when she picked up her own knife from under the counter and chased him out and up the street in Tiverton, Devon in the southwest of England.