John Pearson: Last News

A ‘horrified’ councillor says comments he made about people ‘crossing the channel in an open boat’ have been misinterpreted. Coun John Taylor says the ‘unacceptable’ remarks - made during a debate about a controversial housing scheme - highlighted objectors’ concerns, but did not represent his own views.

Voters in Stockport will go to the polls again on Thursday week to choose which candidates will represent them on the council for the next four years. The borough - under no overall control since 2011 - will undoubtedly be one to watch, with Labour and the Lib Dems again neck and neck in their battle to run the town hall.

teenagers so no one else would know they were gay, a biographer claims. Gangsters Ronnie and Reggie Kray terrorised east London in the 1950s and 60s with their thuggery and violence all the while keeping their homosexuality a secret, John Pearson wrote.One of his books became second only to the Bible for popularity among locked up criminals, but Ronnie's shocking admission was in another, MyLondon reports.The author chose to only publish the twin's shocking allegation once they had both died and his book Notorious: The Immortal Legend of the Kray Twins hit shelves in 2011.Mr Pearson, who died last year aged 91, interviewed both twins upon their personal invitation and claims Ronnie disclosed the secret of the incestuous relationship.