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Mick Herron steps into the daylight beyond the imposing main entrance of HMP Bullingdon in Oxfordshire and breathes deeply. The spy writing superstar had been addressing a reading workshop for some 35 inmates at the Category B prison, sharing the story behind his globally successful Slow Horses series, adapted for the television starring Gary Oldman as larger-than-life spymaster Jackson Lamb. ...
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Incredible life of Winston Churchill’s favourite spy who saved Nazi prisoners
As wartime SOE agent Krystyna Skarbek is honoured with a photograph at the National Portrait Gallery in London as part of a new exhibition on female spies, her biographer Clare Mulley recounts this extraordinary woman’s story… and her unbelievably tragic end Daily Express :: Entertainment Feed
Read More »UK jail forced to close after radioactive gas found as prisoners evacuated
HMP Dartmoor has temporarily closed after high levels of radon were discovered. Daily Express :: News Feed
Read More »Thousands of prisoners to be released amid fears over breakdown of law and order
Prisoners will be released after they have served 40% of their sentence, meaning in many cases convicts will be let out months early. Daily Express :: News Feed
Read More »Ukraine to allow some prisoners to enter army, as Kyiv focuses on finding needed recruits
A decision by Ukraine’s government to allow some prisoners to join the fight against Russia is an indication that the state is willing to cast a wider net to fulfil its wartime personnel needs. CBC | World News
Read More »Urgent warning issued as prisoners can ‘dig through walls with plastic cutlery’
A report found that prisons across England and Wales are in ‘dire’ physical conditions. Daily Express :: News Feed
Read More »Ann Widdecombe lashes out against early release of prisoners: ‘It’s an incentive to crime’
Ann Widdecombe has warned that releasing offenders up to 70 days early to ease overcrowding is an “incentive to crime”. Daily Express :: News Feed
Read More »Great Escape prisoners of war ‘betrayed by English informants’
The Great Escape led to the arrest and execution of 50 Allied escapers on the direct order of Adolf Hitler Daily Express :: News Feed
Read More »‘Mortgage prisoners’ struggling to pay for food take legal action against TSB
Mr and Mrs Belson of Swindon are two mortgage prisoners whose interest rate has more than doubled since December 2021. Daily Express :: Finance Feed
Read More »Zelensky says Russia is ‘playing with the lives’ of Ukrainian prisoners after plane crash
Volodymyr Zelensky has called for an international inquiry after a plane crash in Russia Daily Express :: News Feed
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