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2 days ago · Revealed: Firm whose watch dealer was found dead after raid also targeted in 2021 when crooks stole £500k of timepieces. 28 May 2024, 11:48 | Updated: 28 May 2024, 11:57. A jewellers raided by two thieves on Saturday (left and right) was previously targeted in a 2021 attack where robbers stole £500,000 worth of watches, it has been revealed.
1 day ago · Watch dealer is found dead 24 hours after two robbers were caught on CCTV raiding his west London jewellery store and stealing high value timepieces By Milo Pope Published: 02:39 EDT, 28 May 2024 ...
2 days ago · There were two main police forces involved in the hunt to catch Jack the Ripper - the Metropolitan Police and the City of London Police. Since the murders of Mary Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride and Mary Kelly, took place in Whitechapel and Spitalfields, their murder sites came under the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Police and it ...
4 days ago · By The Week UK. published 26 May 2024. London's oldest gentlemen's club, White's, began life in Mayfair in 1693 as Mrs White's Chocolate House, founded by an Italian migrant, Francesco Bianco. It ...
3 days ago · FOLLOW THE STORY AS IT UNFOLDED. The Jack the Ripper newspaper archive consists of contemporary newspaper reports that combine to tell the full story of the Whitechapel Murders as it unfolded in the popular press between 1888 and 1891. You will be able to read the accounts of the murders as they appeared in the newspapers in the days that ...
3 days ago · THE POLICE WERE UNDERMANNED. One of the major problems faced by the police as they endeavoured to investigate the Jack the Ripper Murders was that they were suffering from a severe shortage of manpower. As the police investigation into the killings began in September 1888 Sir Charles Warren, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, submitted his ...
2 days ago · The Gordon Riots, June 1780. The Gordon Riots in London were motivated by anti-Catholic sentiment. What began as an orderly protest over The Papists Act of 1778 (an act intending to reduce discrimination against Catholics), descended into rioting and looting. Lord George Gordon was head of the Protestant Association.
