Biggs 'to be released within days'

Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs could be free within days after Justice Secretary Jack Straw agreed to grant him parole, it has been reported.

The Times said Mr Straw would sign the 79-year-old's parole papers, allowing him to be released into the care of a nursing home.

Biggs, who is being held in Norwich prison, is in Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital after breaking his hip in a fall at the weekend.

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