IT’S the James Bond adventure Western intelligence agencies don’t want you to read – a tell-all book that lifts the lid on the shadowy real-life spy world as never before. Richard Tomlinson ...

Royle Family actor Ricky Tomlinson claims Richard Whiteley was a spy. The 77-year-old actor believes the late Countdown presenter - who fronted the show for more than 20 years - was an undercover ...

Richard Whiteley is best ­remembered as the jovial host of Countdown, but Ricky Tomlinson has claimed there was a darker side to the popular presenter. The Royle Family star has accused the ...

M O S C O W, Jan. 22 -- Publishers for former MI6 agent Richard Tomlinson today said they had released his inside story of Britain's spy service — but finding the publishers, the spy or the book ...

Richard Whiteley wasn't just a master of letters and numbers. According to the Royle Family star Ricky Tomlinson, the Countdown host was once a spy for MI5 spy - and even helped send the actor to ...

Forget "Bond. James Bond." One former British spy now greets the world as "Blogger. Angry Blogger." Richard Tomlinson was dubbed a "renegade spy" by the British press in the late 1990s. That's ...

Richard Tomlinson: Former spy now lives in Italy. The government has won an injunction preventing former MI6 spy Richard Tomlinson profiting from his memoirs. More than 1,500 copies of The Big Breach: ...

The partner of the late Richard Whiteley has denied claims from actor Ricky Tomlinson that he was a spy. The Royle Family star has suggested that the legendary Countdown host was involved in an ...

CHAPTER after chapter of self-justification drags The Big Breach, the book by the disaffected ex-MI6 officer Richard Tomlinson, down to the lower reaches of the hack thriller genre. Now ...

Richard Whiteley is best ­remembered as the jovial host of Countdown, but Ricky Tomlinson has claimed there was a darker side to the popular presenter. The Royle Family star has accused the ...

Ricky Tomlinson has claimed that Richard Whiteley, best known for presenting afternoon gameshow Countdown for more than 20 years, was a member of the intelligence services.

The partner of the late Richard Whiteley has denied claims from actor Ricky Tomlinson that he was a spy. The Royle Family star has suggested that the legendary Countdown host was involved in an ...