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| Sir Jimmy reunited with glasses | Sir Jimmy reunited with glasses |
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| Sir Jimmy Savile has been reunited with his glasses days after they were snatched by a female prankster. | |
| British Transport Police (BTP) have fixed it for the veteran star to get his John Lennon style spectacles back. | British Transport Police (BTP) have fixed it for the veteran star to get his John Lennon style spectacles back. |
| The glasses were snatched from Sir Jimmy's face as he left a function at the Queen's Hotel in Leeds last week. | The glasses were snatched from Sir Jimmy's face as he left a function at the Queen's Hotel in Leeds last week. |
| The 81-year-old, who lives in the city's Roundhay area, compared the experience to being chased by fans in the 1960s and said it was "marvellous". | The 81-year-old, who lives in the city's Roundhay area, compared the experience to being chased by fans in the 1960s and said it was "marvellous". |
| Sir Jimmy told the BBC that it was good old fashioned detective work that had tracked down his glasses. | |
| 'No further action' | |
| He said officers had found out the woman's identity and tracked her down to a bar in Leeds over the weekend where they retrieved his glasses. | |
| A spokeswoman for BTP said the woman had snatched his spectacles as "a bit of a prank" and that no further action would be taken against her. | |
| Sir Jimmy said: "If this lady wants a souvenir, I do a good line in wearing string vests and if she wants to wrestle it off me then that's perfectly fine." |