A Very British Heroine

The other day, in the English town of Northampton, a jewellery store robbery was foiled by a handbag-wielding grannie in her 70s, who single-handedly sent the half-dozen or so large male would-be robbers running/motorbiking away in disarray:



The brave person with the camera carried on regardless of the risk to life and limb, as the life and limb concerned was not theirs.

This is what the old lady, later identified as Ann TImson, looks like up close and unblurred. She has retired the red coat for the time being till the publicity dies down: