Slip-up: How Fleet Street Found Ronnie Biggs and Scotland Yard Lost Him - The Story Behind the Scoop
Metro.co.uk (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Jack Straw has been accused of allowing politics to 'cloud his judgment' over the delayed release of the seriously ill Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Public opinion swayed Justice Secretary Jack Straw's decision on releasing Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs, the Parole Board head says.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Jack Straw the Justice Secretary is to give up all responsibility for the release of prisoners in the wake of the Ronnie Biggs row.
Railway Eye (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Telegrammed by the Archer Perhaps Eye readers would like to join me in congratulating Bob Crow on his latest achievement. Sharp suited Bob makes a guest appearance on the track 'Sweet Revolution' on the new Alabama 3 CD. Whilst this is all very rock and roll perhaps Bob may want to distance himself from some of the bands other activities (' They party like b*stards ' - Time Out). And in particular...
Travel (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
By Eloise Bright The following paragraphs contain some nice movie reviews. You can find a lot of information on movie downloads sites if you do a good search. To get some good sites try to search phrases like "Download Tv Shows", "Top DVD Rentals", or "Online Movies Tv". The Great Rock 'n Roll Swindle: An outrageously skeptical free form documentary in regards to the...
Off The Post (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Uh, where’s Highbury gone? Ronnie Biggs’ health has improved so much since his release from prison that he is planning a trip to watch Arsenal. The Gunners fan hasn’t seen his team play live since being convicted of his part in the Great Train Robbery in the 1960s. The 80-year-old was given compassionate release from jail in [...]
Can't Stop the Bleeding (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
This isn’t quite as sensational a story as Alex Ferguson demanding Manchester United fans stop calling Arsene Wenger a pedophile, but that one’s a day old, so this update on the condition of Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs, as culled from the TImes’ “Crime Central”, will have to do. Ronnie’s son, Michael, took his dear old [...]
Metro.co.uk (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs has recovered from being 'close to death' and now feels well enough to watch his beloved Arsenal, according to reports.
Evening Standard - News (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
EXCLUSIVE: Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs won his freedom after doctors said he was so ill he had only weeks to live
Dungeekin. . . (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Blair Presidency; "my chance to screw up not just a country, but a whole continent". I heard something absolutely hilarious on the Today Program this morning. You're gonna love this. Obviously we had the usual the assumptions from all parties now that the Lisbon Treaty is full-steam-ahead for ratification. Then, amusingly enough, there were the speculations about the likelihood of nomination...
IOL (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
Safa have announced they will approach Schabir Shaik, Leonard Chuene, Ronnie Biggs, Nelson Mandela, Helen Zille, Lulu Xingwana and Jomo Sono to form a "collective coaching cabinet" to lead Bafana Bafana to the World Cup, writes Kevin McCallum.
Eric The Fish (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
It is not so extraordinary that Nick Griffin has sought to link military generals with Nuremberg hangings. This is all part of the BNP tactic of gainsaying opponents with the Fascist motif; the political equivalent of those playground philosophical discourses that ended when someone said 'No, YOU stink! No comebacks.' Hopefully, the public will see through this particular outburst and see Griffin for...
Lobbydog (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
There was an interesting debate on prisoner release this morning related to the Al Megrahi (left) and Ronnie Biggs cases. Nick Palmer MP was trying to get to grips with the question of when prisoners should be released on compassionate grounds and when they shouldn’t. He reckoned it should never be down to a politician to decide – which given the manoeuvring around the Lockerbie bomber’s...
Prawn Free Lembit (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
OK chaps, now listen up. Do you get excited about political party conferences? In my never ending mission to reveal the wonderful world of politics, here’s a quick round up of what went on when the lovely Lib Dems descended on Bournemouth Conference Centre to save the world. Team Opik was there… TRAINS DO you think our rail service is crap? I do. And it’s expensive too. That’s...
Later On (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
Interesting article by Maggie Fergusson in Intelligent Life magazine: When Colin Eliot, four years into a 15-year sentence, stuck a bird’s-eye diagram of HMP Wandsworth, London, to the wall of his cell on the high-security wing, the screws were straight on to him. Escapes do happen: it was from Wandsworth, in 1965, that Ronnie Biggs gave [...]
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