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To avoid the attention of would-be muggers, the punters arrived with an array of unostentatious bags. The women seemed to prefer their old shopping baskets, while one elderly man - dressed as though he'd dashed here straight from the golf course - brought a Sainsbury's carrier. Then there was the balding, middle-aged chap who kept glancing around furtively as he waited to make his purchase, and would only say that he 'worked in the emergency services'. He had just bought a grey rambler's rucksack and hoped it would weigh considerably heavier by the time he boarded the train back to his home in the Kent suburbs. They were all such ordinary people but they had come flocking to central London with an extraordinary aim born of these desperate times. All were determined to make sure that their hard-earned nest eggs didn't get... [read full story]
