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From a musical icon to a double-agent spy to a characterful couple whose ashes were scattered at the site - this remote cottage has welcomed them all to its amazing story that almost ended in dereliction

THE UK Foreign Secretary must declare a Scot who was jailed in India five years ago is being unlawfully detained and pledge to prioritise his…

You might suppose Hollywood is good at predicting the future. Indeed, Robert Wallace, head of the CIA’s Office of Technical Service and the US equivalent of MI6’s fictional Q, has recounted how Russian spies would watch the latest Bond movie to see what technologies might be coming their way.

Today MI5 is releasing a massive number of its historical files into the National Archives at Kew. Among them are papers telling for the first time the inside story of its investigation of John Vassall — the notorious KGB spy in the Admiralty until his arrest in 1962.

The head of Britain’s cyber-intelligence agency is accusing China of using its economic and technological clout to clamp down at home and exert control abroad

M16 agent Gareth Williams was found dead in a bag inside his flat in 2010. Here's everything we know about Gareth Williams' life, his mysterious death and revelations from the inquest as Channel 5 documentary The Body In The Bag airs

The death of Gareth Williams has remained a mystery ever since the spy's body was found naked in a bag padlocked from the outside

Newly declassified files expose the Foreign Office’s dirty tricks campaign to influence the knife-edge 1976 election result

With her electrifying new thriller ‘Double or Nothing’, the 33-year-old becomes the first female author to pick up Ian Fleming’s mantle. She talks to Kevin E G Perry about Britishness, the power of myth, and test-driving sports cars