Britain's biggest ever bank robbery

[Lady Whistledown]

Kent Police are hunting a gang of armed robbers who are thought to have stolen up to £40 million from a cash depot in Tonbridge (sounds like the start of a joke I know but its just been on the evening news, happened in the small hours of this morning).

Apparently they ambushed the manager on his way home and drove him to the depot at gunpoint, also kidnapping his wife and kids from their home.

£40 million

(In other news, Brighton & Hove Albion chairman Dick Knight surprised the football world today by putting in a £39 million bid for Ronaldinho, and contributing £1 million to long serving star Kerry Mayo's testimonial fund)


So come on, anyone noticed their mates buying Ferraris today?

And where do you get swag bags big enough to stash £40 million in??

 

[Beach Hut]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/4739324.stm

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Must be pretty difficult to conceal that amount of cash (though I wouldn't mind the opportunity to try). They're going to be looking behind them for a good while I reckon.

"Run and hide, my friends, run and hide", as the casino owner said in Ocean's Eleven.

 

[readingstockport]

One of my good mates is the European security director for Securitas. Poor sod is probably not getting any sleep at all right now

He's also a Reading season ticket holder and Uncle Buck and others have met him in the Hobgoblin, remember he looks a little like David Seamen?

Wait until the weekend and I'll try and get some more information foir you Edna.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

One of my good mates is the European security director for Securitas. Poor sod is probably not getting any sleep at all right now

He's also a Reading season ticket holder

I sincerely hope it's not an inside job then.

It's not as though Reading FC need any more money

 

[readingstockport]

I'm going to tell him you said that.

 

[hitony]

40 million ?? ...thats one big f*** off wallet you would need for that eh ?

 

[Lady Whistledown]

£40 million is an estimate at the moment.

But still bigger than the "Great" (yeah, great for the train driver) Train Robbery, and the Northern Ireland bank job two years ago.

Like I said, time to get suspicious of your mates' new hot tub in the garden, 75" plasma TV and mock Tudor mansion

 

[BensGrandad]

Anybody know who it is and do they want to launder some money in a football club.

Not very funny for the family of the manager though.

 

[perseus]

1963 - Armed robbers steal £2.6m in the Great Train Robbery

Beer was 10 pence? a pint or thereabouts

Now it is 25 times as much

£2.6 m x 25 = £65 million

Whoops that was 10 old pence, 10d is 5 new pence, so that was £130 million.

Except I am not sure about the price of a pint in 1963? It was 1/8d in 1968.
So I expect it was about 1/3d, so the Great Train Robbery might just equal £100 million nowadays?

 

[Bry Nylon]

I did it

 

[Lord Bracknell]

2006 prices are 14.125 higher than 1963 prices.

That means that the Great Train Robbery was worth £36.7 million in today's money.

 

[Bry Nylon]

FACT ...??

 

[BensGrandad]

1963 - Armed robbers steal £2.6m in the Great Train Robbery

Beer was 10 pence? a pint or thereabouts

Now it is 25 times as much

£2.6 m x 25 = £65 million

Whoops that was 10 old pence, 10d is 5 new pence, so that was £130 million.

Except I am not sure about the price of a pint in 1963? It was 1/8d in 1968.
So I expect it was about 1/3d, so the Great Train Robbery might just equal £100 million nowadays?

Not sure about the actual price but it was less than 2s when we went over to decimal.

I had a row with my area manager because we sold Bitter at 1/11d per pint in the public bar and when the new decimal price list came out it was 11.5p (2/3d)

 

[ben andrews' girlfriend]

How ccome the beeb is saying 25 million and sky are saying 40 million? Now correct me if i'm wrong, but surely someone would be able to notice and extra 15 million pounds go missing?

 

[BensGrandad]

They did say on ITV that the police are refusing to say exactly how much has been stolen. I dont quite know why, does it make a great deal of difference whether the police give the figure out or not.

 

[A Melbourne Albion Supporter]

I did it

nah mate i did it and E'to is on his way as well as Zidane and Roberto Carlos

Stiker, creative Middy and LB all in

still a chance for the playoffs i think
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alas i woke up, sorry

 

[Marshy]

We had the old bill on site here at the hospital in H/Heath yesterday as a load of securicor bags etc were found here....

 

[tedebear]

They did say on ITV that the police are refusing to say exactly how much has been stolen. I dont quite know why, does it make a great deal of difference whether the police give the figure out or not.

yep it does - there are limits as to what can be stored overnight, whether its new or old (un serial number noted), as the treasury will be required to know... maybe they had too much which hadn't been declared?? who knows...

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Not sure about the actual price but it was less than 2s when we went over to decimal.

Not in Brighton, it wasn't.

Tamplin's Sussex Bitter was 2s3d well before the end of the sixties.

The cheapest post-decimal bitter I can recall was 13 pence a pint - and I had to travel to Barnsley to find it.