LONDON (Reuters) - "Great Train Robber" Ronnie Biggs arrived for his funeral on Friday in a hearse bearing a large flower display in the shape of an obscene two-finger "V-sign", a fitting emblem of ...

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 ...

He was "a petty criminal" who joined a gang responsible for one of the 20th Century's most notable heists. Ronnie Biggs, who went to jail for his role in the U.K.'s "great train robbery" of 1963 — but ...

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.