The Oldie

Man on the run

Ever wanted to disappear? Just slip out of the house one day and start a new life in a new place with a new identity?

How easy is it? A bunch of new books by or about people who have been ‘on the run’, sometimes for decades, are full of tips – and warnings – about how to vanish.

It's 60 years since the Great Train Robbery took place on 8th August 1963.

It led to the arrest of a dozen or so suspects and the jailing of some

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