A week past Friday, two men carried out a knifepoint robbery in the city centre.

The 26-year-old victim was not hurt, but had his mobile phone and wallet stolen when confronted by two thugs in Meadow Lane, behind Satchmo’s pub in Meadowside, at 1am.

At the end of June, a man with a knife threatened a woman on the doorstep of her own home before stealing her handbag and mobile phone.

Fortunately, the 45-year-old victim was not hurt in the incident, which occurred at a block of flats in Whitfield.

Towards the end of last year two cabbies were assaulted.

A thug tried to rob a taxi driver at knifepoint in Strathmartine Road, and police also investigated an attempted robbery in Dykehead Place in which another cabbie was assaulted.

Earlier in December, a pensioner was beaten and a young man threatened with a knife in separate assaults.

In the first incident, a 23-year-old man was assaulted and robbed at knifepoint in Strathmartine Road, when he was bundled into a common close by two men.

His attackers produced a knife and threatened him before robbing him of a small sum of cash and making off on foot down Hilltown.

Meanwhile, a 67-year-old man was repeatedly beaten and struck over the head during an unprovoked attack as he walked to the shops in the Macalpine area of the city.

The pensioner — who suffered cuts and bruises to his head, stomach and leg, and required to be detained overnight in Ninewells Hospital — was unable to provide descriptions of his attackers to police.

Just weeks earlier, in November, a 17-year-old was robbed of his iPod and earphones at knifepoint by two teenagers.

The victim was on his way home from school when he was threatened and robbed in the Gowrie Park area.

At the end of October there was another robbery at knifepoint in Dundonald Street, when three men and a woman approached a man and he was threatened into handing over his personal belongings.

Just a week earlier, a shop-owner feared for her life when her store at the corner of Clepington Road and Arklay Street was held up at knifepoint.

Last July, a knife-wielding robber broke into a pensioner’s home in Dykehead Place.

The householder was confronted by the assailant, who demanded money. He eventually made off with £20 and the man’s leather wallet.

Earlier this month, a top Tayside police officer called for a sense of perspective over knife crime, saying fear of a blade culture was threatening to overtake reality.

Chief Superintendent Colin McCashey said there was no need for the public to fear being the victim of a knife attack, as the numbers of incidents were small and had remained static over the past three years.

* Police in Dundee were today continuing to hunt for the man who robbed a 21-year-old woman at knifepoint in the West End at the weekend.

The local woman is said to have been left extremely shaken by the ordeal, which took place in an alley between Tait’s Lane and Peddie Street shortly before midnight on Saturday.

The victim was sitting on a bench, talking on her mobile phone, when the knife-wielding man approached her and grabbed her handbag, which contained cash and personal effects. The man then ran westwards towards Tait’s Lane.

Although the woman was not injured during the robbery, she is understood to be in a fragile state, and police were interviewing her again today.

Her assailant is described as in his mid-20s, about 5ft 9, wearing dark clothing and a dark coloured hat.

Police said extensive inquiries into the incident were being carried out by the CID, describing any robbery involving a weapon as a “big concern”.

West End councillor Fraser Macpherson today moved to reassure the public, saying, “Obviously, I’m concerned to learn about the incident and for the woman, who must have had a frightening experience. I should also say, however, that incidents of knife crime in the city are thankfully very limited.

“I urge anyone with information to contact Tayside Police on 0845 600 5705.”