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The Defector: KGB agent's defection after Soho drink drive arrest changed the shape of the Cold War

The Evening Standard scooped the world in 1971 with the first and only picture of Russian defector Oleg Lyalin, who is now the subject of a compelling new book

Evening Standard

Noteworthy and influential people who've died this year

August saw the death of Stella Rimington, the first female head of Britain’s MI5 intelligence agency

The Independent UK

Iran betting Britain won’t pay for security as ‘reckless’ campaign pushes it to breaking point

The cheap trick that's breaking Britain.

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Spy novelist Stella Rimington, the first female head of MI5, was a ‘true trailblazer’

Dame Stella Rimington, former director general of the UK’s domestic counter-intelligence and security agency, MI5, and author of several spy thrillers, has died this week, aged 90.

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Remembering MI5’s first female director general and author Dame Stella Rimington

The former head of the British Intelligence service and author Stella Rimington was the first female (and publicly-named) MI5 chief, as well as the inspiration for Dame Judi Dench’s M in the James Bond films. She died aged 90.

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Stella Rimington, First Woman To Lead UK's MI5 Dies At 90

Stella Rimington, the first woman to head the UK's domestic secret service MI5, has died at the age of 90, the spy agency announced on Monday.

International Business Times

Stella Rimington, first female MI5 chief, dies aged 90

Former director general died on Sunday night ‘surrounded by her beloved family and dogs’

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Stella Rimington, Britain's first female MI5 spy chief, dies at 90

Stella Rimington, the first female chief of Britain's MI5, has died at the age of 90

The Independent UK

Dame Stella Rimington obituary

First female head of MI5 seen as a Whitehall street fighter whose most controversial role was countering ‘subversion’

The Guardian - UK

Stella Rimington: The spy who brought MI5 out of the shadows

Britain’s first woman spymaster saw an era of greater openness in the intelligence services.

Evening Standard

MI5’s first female director general Dame Stella Rimington dies aged 90

She is widely credited as the model for Dame Judi Dench’s M in the James Bond franchise

The Independent UK

Dame Stella Rimington, first female director general of MI5, dies aged 90

She is widely credited as the model for Dame Judi Dench’s M in the James Bond films.

Evening Standard

Far-right extremists using games platforms to radicalise teenagers, report warns

Parents advised to be vigilant over summer holidays to risk of offenders using in-game live chats to target their children

The Guardian - UK

Ex-BBC journalist says covering Bloody Sunday sparked decades-long career

Peter Taylor, 82, from Oxfordshire, wrote extensively about the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

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Kathleen Rigby obituary

Other lives: History teacher who became a senior lecturer at the Centre for Educational Leadership in Manchester

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Can Ley rebuild the Liberals? AFL faces gambling hit, Trump woes continue

Starting a special series, we look at how Sussan Ley can make her party electable again; Epstein prosecutor fired by Trump’s justice department

The Guardian - UK

Essex man who bought gun in MI5 sting denies writing kill-list of ‘race traitors’

Alfie Coleman, 21, was arrested by counter-terrorism police in east London after picking up pistol and ammunition

Evening Standard

Terror-accused teenager hailed balaclava-clad gunmen ‘coming to England soon’

Alfie Coleman was 19 when he was arrested by counter terrorism police moments after picking up a Makarov pistol and ammunition in 2023.

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I'm delighted Slow Horses has been renewed for season 7, but now I'm worried about the future of my favorite Apple TV+ show

Apple TV+ confirms Slow Horses season 7, but I’m worried – there’s only one Slough House book left to adapt.

Evening Standard

Home Secretary: Government accepts court ruling on ‘serious failing’ by MI5

It emerged this year that evidence given by the security agency to an injunction hearing in 2022 was false.

The Guardian - UK

MI5 apologises after spy gave false evidence about neo-Nazi informant

Intelligence official’s testimony about source who had tried to kill girlfriend with machete had been relied on in court

The Independent UK

‘Premature’ to decide whether MI5 should face contempt probe in BBC injunction case, judges rule

An injunction was granted in April 2022

Evening Standard

‘Premature’ to decide whether MI5 should face contempt probe, judges rule

MI5 previously said there had been ‘failings and errors’ in legal proceedings related to an alleged source accused of abusing two women.

The Guardian - UK

UK launched huge operation to find suspected Russian double agent in MI6

Exclusive: Operation Wedlock lasted up to 20 years and took MI5 teams across world amid panic about ‘another Philby’

Evening Standard

Neo-Nazi teenager snared by MI5 as he tried to buy gun for attack, court told

Alfie Coleman denies preparing acts of terrorism.

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