Ronnie Biggs, who achieved worldwide fame for taking part in the Great Train Robbery of 1963 and then playing cat-and-mouse with U.K. police for 35 years, has died aged 84. The train heist was the ...

As the Scorsese and Tarantino-endorsed British crime thriller Strongroom is re-released in cinemas, we break open the history of the British heist film and make off with the goods.

Host Mikayla Daniels reveals the truth behind the legend of The Great Train Robbery. Host Mikayla Daniels reveals the truth behind the legend of The Great Train Robbery.

Jack Slipper, 81, the tenacious but frustrated Scotland Yard detective who personified the worldwide hunt for the Great Train Robbery fugitive Ronnie Biggs, died Aug. 23, it was reported in London. In ...

LONDON (Reuters) - "Great Train Robber" Ronnie Biggs lost his long-running bid for early jail release on Wednesday after the British government said he should not be allowed out on parole because he ...

Jack Slipper, who died yesterday at 81, achieved celebrity as the nemesis of the Great Train Robber, Ronald Biggs; a detective chief superintendent with the Flying Squad, “Slipper of the Yard” pursued ...

8 August 1963: Britain wakes up to news of the biggest robbery in the country’s history. A train has been hijacked and robbed, 35 miles from its arrival in central London. The country is stunned. Who ...