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A gang of six criminals attacked a jewellery shop in broad daylight in Northampton city centre. They wore black jackets and ski hats to hide their faces and smashed the glass window to steal jewellery. A seventy-year-old woman saw them and started hitting the men with her handbag, surprising them. They dropped the jewellery and tried to flee, but were stopped by other shoppers who came to help the old lady. Four of the men were arrested while the story of the "Granny who stopped armed robbers" made the newspapers, though the old lady disappeared after having a cup of tea.

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A gang of six criminals attacked a jewellery shop in broad daylight in Northampton city centre. They wore black jackets and ski hats to hide their faces and smashed the glass window to steal jewellery. A seventy-year-old woman saw them and started hitting the men with her handbag, surprising them. They dropped the jewellery and tried to flee, but were stopped by other shoppers who came to help the old lady. Four of the men were arrested while the story of the "Granny who stopped armed robbers" made the newspapers, though the old lady disappeared after having a cup of tea.

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Super Gran

It was broad daylight and lots of people were out shopping in Northampton city centre on Saturday.
Suddenly, a gang of six criminals attacked a jewellery shop. They were wearing black jackets and black
ski hats to hide their faces. Their plan was to smash the big glass windows of the jewellery shop, steal as
much valuable jewellery as they could and then quickly escape on motorbikes before anyone could do
anything. They thought that nobody would stop them. But they were wrong. As the gang were smashing
the window, a seventy-year-old woman saw what they were trying to do. She ran up to them and started
hitting the men on the head with her handbag. The men were very surprised when they saw that their
attacker was an old lady. They were so shocked that they dropped the jewellery and tried to run away. But
now other shoppers had seen what was happening and came to help the old lady. The shop assistants
locked the shop and called the police. Four of the men were arrested. The whole incident was filmed on
the mobile phone of a passer-by. He put the film on the Internet and the story was in all the newspapers:
‘Granny stops armed robbers’. And what about the old lady? Nobody knows who she is! Police questioned
people at the scene, but they said she had gone to have a cup of tea and then quietly disappeared.

1 The story is about a

a) robbery b) mugging c) burglary

2 The crime happened

a) during the night b) in the middle of the day c) in the evening.

3 The old woman

a) was the only person to react b) was the first person to react c) filmed the gang on her phone

4 All the members of the gang

a) were arrested b escaped on motorbikes. c) tried to escape.

5 The old lady

a) was questioned by the police b) didn’t tell anyone her name c) phoned the police

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