7 h. ago A Cruel Story: The Ruth Ellis Story filming locations as new true crime series debuts

A Cruel Story: The Ruth Ellis Story on ITV stars Lucy Boynton and Laurie Davidson and tells the true story of the last woman to be hanged in Britain

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16 h. ago Ruth Ellis' children now as A Cruel Love drama on Welsh criminal airs on ITV

Ruth Ellis was the last woman in Britain to be hanged, and when she was executed in 1955 she left behind two children who were both tormented by being associated with their mother

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18 h. ago ITV A Cruel Love: Ruth Ellis said six very calm words after shooting abusive husband

Aged just 28, Ruth Ellis became the last woman hanged in Britain on July 13, 1955, with her story now turned into an ITV series, A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story

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18 h. ago Ruth Ellis' family tragedies after death sentence from triple suicide to daughter's fatal illness

Ruth Ellis became the last woman hanged in Britain on July 13, 1955, at just 28-years-old - with her sentence outraging thousands of people who called for an end to the death penalty

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19 h. ago 'My gran was last woman to be hanged in UK – it set of deadly chain of events'

In 1955, Ruth Ellis was the last woman to be hanged in Britain and her story is now being told in new ITV drama – A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story

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19 h. ago ‘The palace called and I heard myself saying yes’: how Errollyn Wallen went from Top of the Pops to Master of the King’s Music

Written off in her youth, the unstoppable Belize-born musician has overcome indifference, mockery and abuse to become one of Britain’s most acclaimed composers. You have to hang onto your own worth, she tells our writerFor at least half her life, the Belize-born British composer Errollyn Wallen, appointed last year to the title of Master of the King’s Music, has steered herself through a web of invisible rules. Classical composers, dead or alive, were male and white. Their Black and female counterparts were derided or ignored, excised from history. Then, slowly but definitively, things changed, and the institutions that used to give her the cold shoulder started to open up to the music they had dismissed. “People always want to put labels on things, on people,” Wallen says, without rancour. “Let them. You have to hang on to your own worth, see what needs doing. I was written off young, but then found a way through. There’s still so much work to be done.”Wallen’s musical range is amb...

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20 h. ago 'My gran was last woman to be hanged in Britain – it set off horrific turn of events'

After Ruth Ellis became the last British woman to face the death penalty, a grim legacy of trauma and loss cascaded through her family

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30 h. ago Ruth Ellis and the tragedy of her children as new drama broadcast on ITV

New ITV drama A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story will see the tragic life of the last woman to be hanged in Britain explored, including her two children

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49 h. ago Humiliated woman left with bruises by drunk partner's furious Gran Canaria holiday assault

The attacks by John Peebles, 35, have left his victim with nightmares

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49 h. ago ITV A Cruel Love: Inside Ruth Ellis' life and why was she the last woman to be hanged in Britain

A new ITV drama, A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story, tells the story of the last woman to be hanged in Britain

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2 w. ago Gun pulled in pub after woman took gran's ashes from widower in family 'stand

"She filmed what was happening and streamed it on Facebook Live. Nothing reflects well on anybody."

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2 w. ago Was the last woman hanged in Britain the victim of a terrible miscarriage of justice? A new campaign is calling for her to be PARDONED after extraordinary evidence came to light

As the crowds gathered outside Holloway Prison in London on a warm summer's morning in July 1955, the tinkling of the popular tune La Vie En Rose wafted out of the condemned cell.

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2 w. ago Was the last woman hanged in Britain the victim of a terrible miscarriage of justice? A new campaign is calling for her to be PARDONED after extraordinary  evidence has come to light

As the crowds gathered outside Holloway Prison in London on a warm summer's morning in July 1955, the tinkling of the popular tune La Vie En Rose wafted out of the condemned cell.

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2 w. ago Last woman to be hanged in Britain should NOT have been: Ruth Ellis suffered 'miscarriage of justice' after shooting violent boyfriend, grandson says

Ruth Ellis was put to death nearly 55 years ago aged just 28 for shooting dead her violent boyfriend, racing driver David Blakely. She is portrayed by Lucy Boynton in ITV production A Cruel Love.

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