Louis Diaz in 2010. As an undercover agent in the late 1970s, he posed as a part-time hit man, tooling around New York in a yellow Cadillac, while infiltrating a drug lord’s Harlem operation.

This traditional northern treat is a real favourite of mine. It’s stuffed with sticky dates and treacly brown sugar and laced with ginger and rum. ‘Nicky’ may stem from the original ...

Nicky Liow Soon Hee, renowned for links to former Macau crime chief Wan Kuok-koi, gives himself up in Kuala Lumpur; one of nation’s most wanted men faces 26 criminal charges, including for money ...

Nicky Katt, the actor whose brooding stare and intense performances left a lasting mark on cult films and TV dramas, has died at 54. His passing was confirmed by his attorney John ...

Prosecutors have dropped an assault charge against ex-Manchester United footballer Nicky Butt. The 45-year-old was accused of beating his estranged wife Shelley Barlow in Hale, Greater Manchester ...