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    Mar 30, 2020 3 minutes

    50 YEARS AGO... APRIL 1970

    ■ The Royal Mail coach from which the “Great Train” robbers stole more than £2.5 million in an ambush between Leighton Buzzard and Cheddington in August 1963 was broken up and burned in the scrapyard of A King & Sons near Norwich. The operation was watched by police and security men so that nothing would be left available for souvenir hunters. British Railways was insistent that the vehicle was completely destroyed so

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