LONDON, Feb 28 (Reuters) - The mastermind behind Britain's "Great Train Robbery", a 1963 heist that turned its perpetrators into celebrities, has died aged 81, local media reported on Thursday. Sign ...

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 ...

Ronnie Biggs, the former fugitive who helped stage Britain’s “Great Train Robbery” in 1963, has been released from prison, marking the end of a criminal saga that has played out over 40 years and ...

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 ...

LONDON, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Ronnie Biggs, one of Britain's most notorious criminals known for his role in the Great Train Robbery of 1963, died on Wednesday at the age of 84, his spokeswoman said.

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 ...