ELEVEN people charged in connection with Britain's biggest cash robbery appeared at the Old Bailey today.

The 11 are accused of a variety of offences including conspiracy to rob and conspiracy to kidnap in relation to the robbery at the Securitas depot in Tonbridge in February.

They are John Fowler, 61, a car dealer of Elderden Farm, Chart Hill Road, Staplehurst, Stuart Royle, 48, a car dealer of Allen Street, Maidstone, Kim Shackleton, 39, a hairdresser of Allen Street, Maidstone, Lea Rusha, 34, a roofer of Lambersart Close, Southborough, Jetmir Bucpapa, 25, unemployed, of Hadlow Road, Tonbridge, Ermir Hysenaj, 26, a Post Office worker of Prospect Villas, New Road, Crowborough, East Sussex, Raluca Antonela Millen, 26, a warehouse worker of Dudley Road, Tunbridge Wells, Roger Lloyd Coutts, 29, a garage owner of The Green, Welling, Katie Philp, 23, a sales assistant of Hadlow Road, Tonbridge, Michelle Hogg, 31, a hairdresser of Brinklow Crescent, Woolwich and Keith Borer, 53, a sign writer of Little Venice Country Park, Hampsted Lane, Yalding - all apeared before Judge Penry-Davey in a preliminary hearing.

Six of the men appeared by video link from prison while the four women stood in the dock.

Borer, who is on bail on a charge of dishonestly receiving stolen goods, sat with his solicitor in the packed courtroom.