A bank robber who was the first crook to be dubbed a supergrass has died peacefully at his home aged 72 - after surviving more than 30 years with a price on his head.
SUPERGRASS and Chas & Dave are just some of the big names lined up to play this year’s Solfest music festival in west Cumbria. Organisers have announced the line-up for the main stage at the event, to be held on August 22 to 24, at Tarns, near Aspatria.
SUPERGRASS and Chas & Dave are just some of the big names lined up to play this year’s Solfest music festival in west Cumbria. Have we snapped you on a night out?
It's been 44 years since The Kinks exploded on to the scene with the proto-punk classic, "You Really Got Me." As you'd probably expect, Ray Davies †the man who wrote, sang and played guitar on that track and numerous other memorable Kinks songs over the years †isn't making that kind of riff-heavy rock these days.
Bertie Smalls was one of Britain's most prolific armed robbers who, through an act of self-preservation, succeeded in changing the way in which the British police dealt with serious crime. After many years as a professional criminal, he helped create a legal precedent by giving up the cream of London's armed robbers in exchange for immunity from prosecution.
BRIT AWARD winner Kate Nash and indie sensations The Cribs are heading to Coventry as part of a 19-year-old promoter's bid to make the Kasbah nightclub the leading gig venue in the West Midlands.