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

Widely regarded as the inspiration for the recast of the James Bond character “M,” she was the first British spy chief to be ...

LONDON -- Stella Rimington, the first female chief of Britain’s MI5 intelligence agency and later a successful thriller ...

Stella Rimington has died, aged 90. Her spy novels, written from her secret service experience, provide fascinating insights ...

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

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

Dame Stella Rimington, the first woman to lead the UK's domestic secret service and the person believed to have inspired Judy ...

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

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, the former MI5 head and author of spy thrillers, has passed away at 90. Known as the inspiration for Judi Dench's 'M' in Bond films, Rimington was a trailblazer in espionage.

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, ...