It was one of the most famous robberies in British history involving Ronnie Biggs, Buster Edwards, Bruce Reynolds, Gordon Goody, Charlie Wilson, Jimmy Hussey, John Wheater and Brian Field
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Mad Frankie Fraser
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It was suppose to be a relatively easy job stealing �3m in cash with the help of an inside man, but this all changed when instead of finding cash they found gold bullion worth �26m.
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The IRA's attempted murder of the whole British cabinet at The Grand Hotel in Brighton. Not since Guy Fawkes gun powder plot of 1605 had such an audacious crime been attempted in the name of politics.
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The story of Nick Leeson and how he managed to run up a bill of $1.3 Billion dollars and wipe out a 233 year old Bearing Investment Bank that counted the Queen as one of its clients.
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In 1972 police caught men breaking into the watergate building, and it soon became clear that these men caught in the act of breaking in were not there to steal they were doing the exact opposite...
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This is a case that caused controversy about the death penalty in the UK. John Christie was a murder that gave evidence at the trial of Timothy Evans, and stood calmly by as the young Welshman was convicted and hanged for the murder that John himself had commited. Yet his Murdering spree did not finish there...
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Espionage, Russian attaches, political treachery, top-notch Tory politicains, sex parties, call girls, secret FBI investigations, lies told in parliament, the downfall of a cabinet minister and ultimately the rsignation of the British Prime Minister Harold Macmillian...It can only be the Profumo Affair
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As a whole nation stood watching, a white Ford Bronco driven by Al Cowling, with a suicidal OJ Simpson, an ex football star turned TV presenter in the passenger seat with a gun pointed at his head. They drove 60 miles along a highway in Southern California pursued by a slow moving procession of police cars and reporters.
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