11.   The accident happened on the outskirts of Chester after a cross-county motorway chase from Warrington as police followed up a report of an attempted armed robbery.

12.   Both men were cleared on the direction of Judge Angus Stroyan, QC, of attempted robbery.

13.   But Mr Abramson, who used to work in the clothing business, said he suffered chest pains because of the shock of the attempted robbery.

14.   Among the more serious cases, he said, was that of a custodial helper who had been imprisoned for rape and later convicted of attempted robbery.

15.   Another provision of that law says that a person can use deadly physical force to defend against a robbery or an attempted robbery.

16.   A few days later, a young man on a date was shot and critically wounded in an attempted robbery on a street in Greenwich Village.

17.   A Falcons football player was shot outside a popular restaurant just north of downtown early Saturday in an attempted robbery.

18.   A homeless man arrested during an attempted robbery in midtown Manhattan on Friday has been charged with six subway muggings, the police said on Saturday.

19.   A shopkeeper was fatally shot in the face Wednesday night in his West Greenwich Village novelty shop, apparently during an attempted robbery, police said.