Police are delighted with the response from readers of the Ilkeston Advertiser after a video still of a knifeman was featured on the paper’s front page.

Officers issued the picture after a man staged six raids in three days.

The robber threatened staff at grocery stores, newsagents and a card shop.

But following the publication of a CCTV still in the Advertiser, several readers have called the police with information.

And now the police have compiled a list of suspects which they are working through.

Detective sergeant Andy Gibbs said: “There has been a good response and we have eliminated a few names.

“We are making enquiries into the other names.”

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