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He's a writer who has often courted controversy.

South London-born Gordon Newman had a film on journalism banned by the BBC and has regularly upset top police and judges alike with his work.

Four decades ago a criminal trial began in London that was the sensation of the 1960s.

Two men faced charges of murder after an elaborate two-year long campaign by the police to break down the wall of silence that had left the suspects untouchable by the law.

CHARLIE Brown could certainly be regarded as a popular man.

Known as the uncrowned king of Limehouse and the squire of West India Dock Road, about 16,000
people attended his funeral – London’s biggest of the 20th century until Winston Churchill died in 1965.

The story of the landlord of the Railway Tavern who died in 1932 is just one of the tales recounted in Ed Glinert’s new book, London’s Dead, released by Harper Collins this month, priced at £12.99.