Train robber gets away with less

NEARLY 40 years after 15 men stole 120 mail bags containing £2.6m from the Royal Mail train as it passed through the Buckinghamshire countryside, the Great Train Robbery can still arouse controversy. In 1969 the police held an auction of items found in the robbers’ hideout on behalf of the banks who lost money.

One of those items was the Airborne camouflage jacket, tam-o’-shanter and woollen gloves, shown righ…

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