The former head of the British Intelligence service and author Stella Rimington was the first female (and publicly-named) MI5 ...

Peter Taylor is an award-winning journalist who covered The Troubles extensively throughout his career. He will be ‘In ...

Dame Stella Rimington, MI5's first female director general, has died at the age of 90, her family has said. Dame Stella, who ...

She was credited as the inspiration for Judi Dench’s M in James Bond films and was the first publicly named chief of ...

Stella Rimington, the first female chief of Britain's MI5, has died at the age of 90. Her family says she died on Sunday, ...

Dame Stella Rimington, who has died aged 90, was the first female director-general of MI5 – and the first intelligence chief ...

I like my girls”, Kell said, “to have good legs.” There were indeed, Dame Stella felt, able men in MI5. There were also “a ...

Dame Stella Rimington, former director general of the UK's domestic counter-intelligence and security agency, MI5, and author ...

Dame Stella Rimington, the first woman to lead MI5, the UK’s domestic intelligence service, has died. She was 90.

Rimington, who led MI5 from 1992 to 1996, was widely believed to be the inspiration behind the female role of M in the James ...

The defections of the Cambridge spies – Kim Philby, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean – still cast a long shadow over the intelligence community, fuelled in part by the conspiracy theories of MI5 officer ...

Stella Rimington, the first female chief of Britain's spy agency MI5 and the inspiration behind Judi Dench's M in James Bond, ...