A POLICE officer hero of the bloody 1980 Iranian Embassy siege has died at the age of 85. PC Trevor Lock was guarding the building in London’s South Kensington when terrorists took him and 25 ...

In 1980, six gunmen stormed the Iranian Embassy in London, taking 26 hostages. What followed was a tense, six-day standoff that would end in a dramatic SAS rescue. ‘He was the people’s pontiff ...

A hero police officer who was held hostage during the Iranian Embassy siege in 1980 has died aged 85. PC Trevor Lock was on guard outside the building in South Kensington, London when terrorists ...

Forty-seven years ago, in April 1978, the leader of the UK opposition Conservative Party, Margaret Thatcher, visited Iran ...

The bewildered young men in the Iranian embassy were scarcely of the same calibre ... but the odds were hardly the same: the British siege took place in the heart of London, so to call this conclusive ...

On the morning of Wednesday, April 30, 1980, he was assigned as the sole police officer guarding the Iranian Embassy building in London ... infamous Iranian Embassy Siege. Nothing could have ...

(Essex Police / PA) Miss Stuart-Watt, who was a policy fellow at the London School of Economics ... who became a hero of the Iranian embassy siege, dies aged 85 High-value watches stolen ...

A 110-year-old lemon used by a German WW1 spy to send secret messages from Britain with invisible ink is going on display in MI5’s first ever public exhibition. The blackened and flattened fruit ...

And there are papers on the 1988 Lockerbie disaster and the 1980 Iranian Embassy siege in London. MI5 Director General Sir Ken McCallum said the agency had released 6000 paper records to the ...

On 30 April, 1980, a group of six armed men stormed the Iranian embassy in London and took 26 people hostage there, triggering a six-day siege which was decisively ended when the SAS acted.