Police to quiz two over £50m raid - Largest Robery In Britain

A couple are to be questioned by detectives investigating the raid on a Securitas depot in Kent in which armed robbers made off with up to £50m.

The man and wonam, aged 29 and 31, were arrested in south London on conspiracy-related charges following Wednesday's robbery.

Police are keen to trace the movements of what is believed to be a former Parcelforce red van found abandoned at a pub in a village in Kent.

A £2m reward has been offered for information about the raid.

Kent Police Assistant Chief Constable Adrian Leppard said the robbery was executed with military precision by a professional gang operating at the "top level" of organised crime.

"These arrests are significant developments and are very positive and directly related to the investigation," he said.

The man and woman were arrested at separate addresses in Forest Hill.

Police said both properties are being extensively searched and subjected to forensic examination.

His wife Lynn, 45 and their eight-year-old son were subjected to what police described as a "terrifying" ordeal lasting at least six hours.

They were snatched from their Herne Bay home and taken to a remote Kent farmhouse where the gang threatened to shoot them unless Mr Dixon complied with their demands.

The family was then taken to the Vale Road depot in Tonbridge and Mr Dixon was forced to let one of them in.

Fourteen staff members were threatened, tied up and kept in a room while the money was loaded on to a white Renault lorry before the gang drove off early on Wednesday.

The security firm and insurers have put up the £2m reward to try to tempt criminals with information to come forward.

Mr Leppard said: "This is a terrifying crime committed by professional and organised gangsters”.

"It is important to remember that this is a dangerous armed gang, which put a young family, including an eight-year-old boy, and 14 staff at the depot through a terrifying ordeal."

He said at least £25m in cash was missing, but the amount taken could be as high as £50m.

My thoughts on this that. I wish I'd thought of the idea first! But they will have to go to alot of trouble to free the money up so it can be spent. Two more people are being quizzed because a lady tried to deposit £6,000 into a bank account and the notes were marked Tonbridge. How silly is she? Very

Ever thought of eating 50 year old chicken soup?

This is another article found in the Sun newspaper 8 Feb 06 where this old man thought it would be a good idea to eat from a tin of chicken soup that was fifty years old.

A northerner from Greater Manchester named Les Lailey 73 ate chicken soup that he received as a wedding present fifty years ago. He said "It went down a treat. It smelt good and tasted all right - I didn't even bother heating it up" The following day his family rung him up to see if he was still alive. He is doing fine, but he said that he prefers beef rather than chicken.

I think he's lucky not to have sprouted mouldy feathers all over, and laying smelly eggs everywhere.

Another great South Park episode

The episode about Cartman Land is wicked! If your new to South Park its about Cartman, who inherits $1,000,000 from his nan. He spends this money buying an amusement park, just so he can keep everybody out. Especially Kyle. But to keep the park running and maintained he has to let a few people in each day to pay the wages of the maintenance guy and security. Slowly he has to hire more people and let more people in. By the end of the episode he sells the amusement park back and looses his $1,000,000 because Kenny died in his park(surprise, surprise).

I think this has to be my next favorite South Park episode.

Snickers Pie from the BBC site - Food for thought

Wow! a pie made of skickers bars. When i heard about this i had to check it out, because I love snickers bars.

This recipe was on the BBC web site but was promptly removed after recieveing complaints from the public. Each searving is said to contain over 1,000 callories. This sounds like a major heart attack pudding! Even though the page was removed, the recipe was still in googles cached results.

I would like to hear peoples thoughts on this pudding being removed from the BBC site. (Although im not condoning people to eat junk food) But i would like to know how the snickers pie tastes, is it worth the potentual heart attack.

Ingredients
1 packet puff pastry
140g/5oz mascarpone
110g/4oz soft cheese
50g/2oz caster sugar
3 eggs
5 Snickers bars, chopped roughly

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 200C/400/Gas 6.
2. Roll pastry to 3-4mm thick and use to line a 20cm/8in fluted tart tin.
3. Beat the mascarpone, soft cheese and sugar together in a large bowl, until smooth.
4. Beat in eggs, one at a time.
5. Add the Snickers bars and fold in.
6. Pour into a lined tart tin, and spread to the edges.
7. Place in the oven for 10 minutes, then lower to 180C/350/Gas 4 for a further 25 minutes until golden and set. Allow to cool before serving.

Compliments of Antony Worrall Thompson cooked on Saturday Kitchen

Lost numbers Strike again!

I was reading the Sun this morning and saw this article that was quite amusing.

The TV program Lost has a mystery sourounding the numbers that brought them all to the island. Hurley recons the numbers are cursed. Tony Brannon, 54 has been playing the lottery since 1994 and has only won a tenner. He decided to do what Hurley did, and use the numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42 to play the lottery. The week that he used the (cursed)numbers, 5 of his original numbers and a bonus ball was drawn. He had lost out on £100,000.

Tony said: “I thought his ‘unlucky numbers’ might be lucky for me but they really are cursed.”

My thoughts on this are. If you are going to believe what you see on TV, then dont be supprised if it comes true.