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   Oct 5, 2024 · An accomplice waited in a hiding place on Artillery Road nearby. After a brief burst of communication over walkie-talkie, a handmade rope ladder fell into the yard as the guards and inmates...

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3. www.heraldscotland.com › news › 24639826Tory MSP to mark 40th anniversary of Brighton bombing at ...

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   Oct 9, 2024 · Donald MacLean, president of the Scottish Conservatives at the time, was one of those severely injured in the bombing, which took place on October 12 1984, with his wife Muriel amongst the dead.

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   3 days ago · Between then and 1953 a number of Soviet agents were identified including Klaus Fuchs, Harry Gold, David Greenglass, Theodore Hall, William Perl, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Harry Dexter White and eventually Kim Philby.

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6. www.pressreader.com › uk › the-daily-telegraphNicky Byam Shaw - PressReader

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   Oct 24, 2024 · Having made a favourable impression on Billy Collins, the firm’s patriarch, he rose to be sales manager – and when he was poached in 1964 by Alan Maclean, Macmillan’s head of “general books” (and brother of the spy Donald Maclean), Collins fought in vain to keep him with the plea: “But you were an usher at my daughter’s wedding!”

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   Oct 9, 2024 · The British spies Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, the first two members of the Cambridge Spy Ring to break cover, had defected to Russia in 1951.

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   Oct 11, 2024 · The bomb exploded at 2:54 am on 12 October, and the couple occupying room 629 where it had been hideen, were Donald Maclean, the president of the Scottish Conservatives, and his wife Muriel.

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   • Lady Muriel Maclean, wife of Sir Donald Maclean, president of the Scottish Conservatives. Roberta Wakeham, wife of Parliamentary treasury secretary John Wakeham. Sir Anthony Berry, MP for Southgate. His wife was badly injured. Ambulances lined up on the seafront outside the hotel (Image: Simon Dack / The Argus)

   Pictures of Brighton Grand hotel IRA bombing 40 years on

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   Who was inmate 455?

   • Inmate 455 was no ordinary prisoner. George Blake, the 43-year-old ex-MI6 spy turned Soviet agent, had been unmasked in 1961 following a tip-off from a Russian defector. At the Old Bailey that May, Blake was handed a 42-year sentence, the longest non-life sentence ever given by a British court.

   Why it took 25 years to solve the greatest prison break in British history

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   What happened to Albert Pierrepoint and the Hackney Mole Man?

   • When they refused to move, they were both arrested and taken to the police cells for processing. This is the final in a series on urban legends. Francisco Garcia’s first piece was about the cult of personality around Britain’s most prolific hangman, Albert Pierrepoint. The second was about the compulsive digger known as the Hackney Mole Man.

   Why it took 25 years to solve the greatest prison break in British history

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10. www.theargus.co.uk › news › 24630613Pictures of Brighton Grand hotel IRA bombing 40 years on

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    Oct 7, 2024 · At 2.54am on October 12, 1984, a deafening blast tore through The Grand hotel in Brighton as part of a bid to assassinate the then prime minister at the height of the Troubles. The IRA bomb had...