A LOCAL author will be exploring the life of a renowned boxer and hard man in his new book. Jamie Boyle, from Middlesbrough, is set to publish his seventh novel, Roy Shaw Mean Machine. Due to be ...

Sir Roy Shaw, the former Secretary General of The Arts Council who has died aged 93, was a stubborn defender of subsidy.

Men like Lenny McLean and Roy Shaw were direct descendants of the bare-knuckle boxers from the 18th and early 19th century.

ROY "Pretty Boy" Shaw, who has died aged 76, was an associate of the Kray twins and one of the East End's most notorious villains; he served time for armed robbery before becoming a champion of ...

A devastated daughter has led tributes to a grandad who suffered a fatal heart attack at the Regent Theatre. Roy Shaw had been looking forward to watching The Drifters Girl at the Hanley venue ...

EXCLUSIVE: Mark Harris will portray the bare knuckle boxing fighter in UK crime drama. London-based Hereford Films has acquired film rights to the autobiography of Roy ‘Pretty Boy’ Shaw ...

The Burnt-Out Town of Miracles, By Roy Jacobsen, trans. Don Bartlett & Don Shaw A village idiot's fight for survival while caught in the crossfire at -40C ...