On Thursday, Hendy-Freegard, now 53, stood trial in the town of Gueret for driving into and injuring two police officers in ...

A notorious conman who spent four years in a British jail has now been sentenced to six years in France for ramming his car ...

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MI5's stated aim is to protect the UK's citizens and interests against national security threats at home and overseas while MI6 (also known as SIS) gathers intelligence overseas in support of the ...

Some MI5 material relating to its involvement with a teenager who was charged with terrorism before taking her own life is being "withheld" from her inquest but is "not a cause for concern", a ...

Avoid facial disguises, carry loose change and be ready to make split-second decisions: just some of the advice Britain’s domestic spy agency gave recruits tailing subjects nearly a century ago.

Around the same time, a KGB defector told spooks that a young British actor had been targeted in a possible recruitment attempt in the Russian capital. MI5 thought this man might have been Bogarde ...