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Thursday December 19 2013
 
 
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Yellen Fed appointment may hit snag
 
 
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A crime which lives in Britain's collective cultural memory
 

Ronnie Biggs poses with a 'Wanted' poster: Getty images

Like most Britons raised in the 1960s, I grew up thinking that the human species consisted, in essence, of three types of people: fun-loving musicians like the Beatles, harmless screwballs like Johnny Morris (of BBC television's Animal Magic series) and unspeakable villains like the Great Train Robbers.

And now the greatest train robber of them all, Ronnie Biggs, has passed away. RIP Ronnie.

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