Not playing a blinder

YORKSHIRE’S answer to the Peaky Blinders, the oldfashioned Brummie gangsters in the BBC TV series, have been arrested after traces of their DNA were recovered from the flat caps they used while committing a series of burglaries.

The DNA was matched to samples found at the properties they robbed. Their distinctive caps also contained shards of glass from windows broken at the scene of one of their crimes. The burglars were sentenced to four-and-ahalf years. They might have got away with it if they’d gone out robbing Ilkley Moor style.

Bart’at.