Ronnie Biggs


When Ronnie Biggs came marching home again

The Kooka Brothers look at the rise and fall of celebrity minor criminal Ronnie Biggs: a very ordinary person who did a very extraordinary thing: he spent 36 years on the lam — cocking a snook at the law’s longest arm.

Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The First Dog/divine hand relief kerfuffle continues

Crikey readers weigh in on Dog and Christianity (again), Ronald Biggs, wage restraint, Tee Vee, Tour de France, MJ and Sarah Palin.

Ronnie Biggs: England’s own Ned Kelly

The divergence of views over Ronnie Biggs is emblematic of the left-right split, says Charles Richardson in the same way as the Australian debate over Ned Kelly: rebel outlaw hero, or bank robber and murderer?

The Great Train Robber goes home

Ronnie Biggs will leave prison next month and spend his final years as a free man in a brand new nursing home funded by the taxpayer. That’s 20 years early.