A Hull shop owner defused a stand-off with an armed robber by telling him off for interrupting her cup of tea.

Relaxed Karamjit Sangha, who works at Sangha newsagents, was confronted by Stuart Gleeson who was brandishing a seven-inch knife, the Hull Daily Mail reports.

The unflustered shop worker told the robber, who demanded cash from the till, that he would have to wait until she had finished her tea.