The Latest Breaking News from Alan Bennett

Police started a dig in search of victim after author claimed to have discovered a likely grave for the boy

Alan Bennett says he has been left ‘confused’ by author’s claims to have found body after dig yields no results

Amateur sleuth claims to have come across the body of the boy murdered by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley

Some 58 years after Keith Bennett's death, there is renewed hope he might be found and finally laid to rest

Author Russell Edwards believes Moors murderer Ian Brady may have been trying to create a Swastika with the burial sites of his victims that was never finished

Alan Bennett, the brother of the 12-year-old Moors murder victim Keith Bennett, said police have not yet found his siblings' remains as part of a new dig in moorland

"We are at the very early stages of assessing the evidence which he brought to our attention"

Adrian Scarborough stars in his own adaptation of Bennett’s story, featuring convincing new dialogue and staged with visual panache

“I could see she was a good card to have in my hand,” director Stephen Frears told me when I interviewed him about The Queen, his 2006 film starring Helen Mirren as the monarch, adjusting to the aftermath of Princess Diana’s death. Yet neither he nor the movie’s writer Peter…

Toronto film festival: A-listers are tended to by formidable nurse Jennifer Saunders in Richard Eyre’s adaptation of the 2018 play about a struggling geriatric hospital

While the empire slipped away, society swung and privacy withered, she was steadfast, putting duty above all else