en_GB http://tobyinkster.co.uk/tag/crime/ http://tobyinkster.co.uk/blog/2008/12/05/robbery/ <p><img src="/blog/2008/12/05/robbery/files/clouseau" alt="" style="float:right"></p> <p>In the news today: robbers dressed in drag steal &euro;80 million worth of jewelry from a shop in Paris.</p> <p>As covered by:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article5292474.ece">The Times</a></li> <li><a href="http://uk.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUKTRE4B423U20081205">Reuters</a></li> <li>etc&#8230;</li> </ul> <p>Also in the news today is that it&#8217;s the 50th anniversary of two firsts</p> <ul> <li>The first <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subscriber_trunk_dialling"><span class="caps">STD </span>call</a> in the <span class="caps">UK, </span>dialled by the Queen; and</li> <li>The opening of the <span class="caps">UK&#8217;</span>s first motorway, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M6_motorway#History_and_curiosities">Preston by-pass</a>.</li> </ul> <p>I wonder what two things happened today that people will remember in 50 years?</p> http://tobyinkster.co.uk/blog/2007/05/02/lewes-shooting/ <p>About five minutes&#8217; walk from our house:</p> <blockquote> <p>A man has been seriously injured in a shooting in Lewes town centre, Sussex Police have said.</p> <p>Officers said they were called to Southover High Street in the East Sussex town by a member of the public on Tuesday evening.</p> </blockquote> <p>(From <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/sussex/6613825.stm"><span class="caps">BBC</span> News</a>)</p> <p>Part of the reason we moved out of London was to get <strong>away</strong> from this sort of thing.</p>