The guy was dragging out an automatic from beneath his arm, sidestepping in a last-ditch bid to save himself.

CBS doesn't think its last-ditch bid on Friday, for $1 billion over four years, more than NBC's offer, was treated equitably.

Later Mr Mellor did a round of TV interviews in a last-ditch bid to win party backing.

His return was described as a "big boost" for Hawthorn's last-ditch bid to revive its season, after many commentators said the club was suffering a "premiership hangover".

The statement by government spokesman Josep Pique appeared to thwart a Spanish judge's last-ditch bid to block the 84-year-old general's release.

January 3-8: Anwar tours several states across the country in a last-ditch bid for public support, reassert his innocence and reject the sodomy charge as false.

A last-ditch bid to stop divorce from becoming legal in Ireland failed today when the Supreme Court refused to overturn the result of a referendum that ended the ban on divorce.

It was all part of a last-ditch bid to get her formal travel document, a paper that, as a legal foreign worker with a pending green card application, she badly needed.

The paper called the idea "part of Rudolph Giuliani's continuing program of selling off city-owned properties in a last-ditch bid to close New York's billion-dollar budget gap."