Melita Norwood, the "granny spy" who passed Britain's nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union, helped speed up Stalin's atomic bomb programme by five years, according to a controversial new biography.

Melita Norwood continued to spy for the Russians even after the Non-Ferrous Metals Association lost its government contracts. She was supervised in the late 1950s by another Soviet illegal, Gordon ...

Standing in her suburban front garden in 87-year-old pensioner Melita Norwood read from a crisp sheet of paper, intently looking down the lens of a camera as she confessed to being a top secret spy ...

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC loves a spy drama from The Night Manager to London Spy and Phoebe Waller-Bridge acquisition Killing Eve. It is now working up a story about one of the most important Soviet spies of ...

She was a diminutive grandmother who lived in an ordinary house in south east London and spent most of her time tending to her roses in her garden. But Melita Norwood was one of the KGB’s most prized ...

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The Spy Who Came in from the Co-Op by David Burke 232pp, Boydell Press, £18.99 On 11 September 1999, Dr David Burke travelled by coach from Leeds to London, to enjoy a frugal Sunday lunch of fish ...

She was dubbed the Spy Who Came In From The Co-Op but for years Melita Norwood's neighbours regarded her as an ordinary, if eccentric, widow. Aged 87 by the time she was unmasked as a former Soviet ...

On a nice morning in Kent, that old witch Melita Norwood put her head round the door and said sure she had spied for Russia, and for 40 years at least. Given them plenty of nuclear secrets to help ...

And the sleepy South Staffordshire parish of Wombourne, with its manicured village green, is an unlikely bolthole for one of the Kremlin’s best undercover operatives. To residents, the smiling ...

Standing in her suburban front garden in 87-year-old pensioner Melita Norwood read from a crisp sheet of paper, intently looking down the lens of a camera as she confessed to being a top secret spy ...