Banking on a lift
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Ifil he mob behind a recent bank job certainly didn't believe in half measures — not content with the loot they took the bank, lock, stock and barrel. They even persuaded the local force to provide them with an escort.
The daylight heist happened in the Surrey village of Ripley where the National Westminster Bank has decided to close its tiny branch office established in the 1930s. This answered a prayer for the Send and Ripley History Society, which had searched since 1975 for a small building to use as a museum.
NatWest was happy to donate the building but needed the land. As a result machinery removal specialist Vanguard Engineering was called in. It constructed a lifting cage, then raised the 18.5-tonne building on to a triaxle low-loader using a crane. The building was safely driven to the end of the street and deposited next to the village hall.