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Press, 7 August 1982, Page 8

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Bullion probe \ diver, Keith Jessop, whose team salvaged £7O million (SNZI66 million) in'; gold from the wartime wreck of H.M.S. Edinburgh, is awaiting release after being questioned by police. Mr Jessop and John Jackson of the Salvage Association were ! arrested • yesterday. Both were questioned at New Scotland yard about cases of ' alleged theft, criminal deception and corruption. Mr Jackson is also due to be •. released. — London. "Mastermind thieves’ The final amount taken in what could be Britain’s big-gest-ever bank robbery may,; never be known. A team of “mastermind thieves” at the week-end cleaned out 120 safe deposit boxes at a ~ Lloyd's Bank opposite the. - Hatton Garden diamond, centre, but only a few box.-.' holders have come forward to reveal the contents of their holdings. Police would not confirm press specula- 1 ; tion that the haul may havejtotalled tens of millions'of*: dollars. — London < V' \ - 1 Support slips Public support for the?:! British Government hasi slipped from the peak of.* popularity it enjoyed at the'* end of the Falklands conflict,£ an. opinion poll has shown.--' But the ruling dre still way ahead of the* opposition .Labour' Party,£ with the alliance of Social ’* Democrats and Liberals?! trailing in third place, cording to the poll by Market £ and Opinion Research Inter- 4 -! national in the "Daily Ex-« press,” newspaper. — London'*