Exclusive: Ronnie Biggs only played a small role in the 1963 robbery of a Royal Mail train stealing £2.6million, but became the most infamous after escaping Wandsworth Prison and evading the law for 36 years Great Train robbery fugitive Ronnie Biggs, who has just had a posthumous autobiography of his …
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Newly colourised images mark the 60th anniversary of the Great Train Robbery with images showing the thrilling search and ultimate capture and trial of the gang. One of the images shows the clothing and camping equipment found by police at Leatherslade Farm Oakley Buckinghamshire which was used as a hide …
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PureGym is set to open its newest site in Crewe later this week. The new gym opens Friday (August 11) at Grand Junction Retail Park. Plans for the gym were submitted over two years before they were finally approved in March 2023. The former Sofology site will open as a …
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The first job of Royal Mail’s next top boss should be to sort out the “diabolical” postal service in Gloucester, according to a civic chief. International Distribution Services, the owner of Royal Mail, appointed Martin Seidenberg as their new chief executive this month. Mr Seidenberg will reportedly be paid a …
Read More »Marie McNair joined Alan Deefholts on his morning round through Linnvale during a visit to the town’s Royal Mail Delivery Office. Alan has been hand-delivering the area’s mail for 37 years. Ms McNair noted all staff at the Clydebank office were ‘dedicated’ (Image: Supplied) And Ms McNair had nothing but …
Read More »Researchers at Brunel University London used data from NHS Digital, the Royal College of Physicians and the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to identify the prevalence of smoking in each region. They found that between 2019 and 2021, 13.6% of people aged 18 and over in England smoked. The lowest …
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A 10-year-old boy was ‘almost impaled’ on a sliding glass door on a holiday from hell after the family endured an ‘eggy stench’ from a beach piled high with rotting seaweed. The family paid more than £18,000 for the holiday in Cancun, Mexico. Tessa Jonson said: “It was the hotel …
Read More »Doctors at the Royal Brompton Hospital and St Bartholomew’s Hospital are using a robotics-assisted bronchoscopy system as part of a clinical trial. The Ion Endoluminal System (Ion) was developed by technology company Intuitive. Its manoeuvrable robotic catheter is inserted into the patient via their throat using an endotracheal tube, allowing …
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Police scene on the A259 (Image: The Argus) A cordon remains in place next to the A259 after varying reports of a “hit and run” and “stabbing” outside a hotel. Police tape cordons off a section of the pavement on Brighton seafront following the incident in the early hours of the morning. …
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Howard Gosling, 78, who runs a business providing pool and spa hygiene advice, said that the final collection time at his nearest post box in Nether Compton, Dorset, was changed to 10am this spring. He told The Telegraph: “We used to have a collection at 5.30pm, then it became 5.15pm …
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