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Ricky Tomlinson

Ricky Tomlinson is a Liverpool-born actor and activist. He is best known for his role as Jim Royle in The Royle Family

December 2023

  • An emotional goodbye in Ghosts Christmas Special on BBC One.

    TV tonight
    Christmas Day TV: grab some tissues for the last ever episode of Ghosts

  • Black and white portrait of the late writer and actor Caroline Aherne

    ‘She was sharp as a tack but daft as a brush’: friends and colleagues remember the genius of the Royle Family’s Caroline Aherne

September 2023

  • The cast on the set of The Royle Family.

    Carrot crush for all! An oral history of The Royle Family and its ‘gloriously mundane genius’

    How did Caroline Aherne’s show about a northern working class family who barely left their house become a hit, blazing a trail for The Office, Gavin and Stacey and Gogglebox? Its stars and makers reveal all

March 2022

  • More enthusiasm than script … Catherine Rice and Ricky Tomlinson in Irish Annie's.

    Irish Annie’s review – it’s the Ricky Tomlinson show

    The actor and raconteur is in his element in Asa Murphy’s jolly Irish bar-themed patchwork production

March 2021

  • Ricky Tomlinson (left) at a protest by trade union members outside parliament calling for an inquiry into the case of the Shrewsbury 24

    We were convicted in 1973 after a political trial – it was a nonsense

    Ricky Tomlinson
  • Supporters of the Shrewsbury 24 take part in a march in London in 2018

    Shrewsbury 24: how industrial action led to 47-year fight for justice

January 2021

  • Ralf Little

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Ralf Little: 'I've been having a midlife crisis since I was 20'

    The actor on his first leading role, giving up a career in medicine for The Royle Family, and his new year resolutions

November 2020

  • Metropolitan police

    'Spy cops' scandal
    Police chief who spied on activists went on to work for union blacklist, inquiry told

    Firms consulted blacklist to vet potential workers they believed could be troublemakers

May 2020

  • Ricky Tomlinson

    Ricky Tomlinson’s criminal convictions to be re-examined

    Appeal court to look again at case of Royle Family actor after claims he may have been unjustly jailed

April 2020

  • ‘The Tiger King is more like fiction than reality’ ... Stacey Dooley.

    My lockdown TV
    'The Royle Family makes me properly laugh': Stacey Dooley's lockdown TV

    The documentary maker reveals how Ricky Tomlinson and co remind her of her childhood, and why the stars of Netflix’s Tiger King are just as bad as each other

June 2018

  • Lush's Twitter account uses the slogan 'Paid to lie' alongside a model pictured as an undercover police officer

    As victims of spycops, we stand with Lush in campaign for full disclosure

    Letter: Doreen Lawrence and John McDonnell are among 74 victims of secret undercover police operations, lawyers and others condemning misrepresentation of the cosmetics retailer

March 2017

  • If only it was Bob Holness, I could do a joke about “Can I have a C, an I, and an A please, Bob.”

    Lost in showbiz
    Countdown conundrum: was Richard Whiteley’s favourite nine-letter word ‘espionage’?

    Royle Family star Ricky Tomlinson has accused the late TV host of working for the intelligence services – and helping to put him in prison – but, like a tricky numbers round, things don’t quite add up

December 2016

  • Liz Smith

    Liz Smith obituary

    Bafta award-winning actor, best known for playing Nana in The Royle Family, got her breakthrough later in life

August 2016

  • Ricky Tomlinson

    Actor Ricky Tomlinson demands inquiry into police spying on him

    Royle Family star, who says he was jailed unjustly over a 1972 strike, calls for investigation into secret police file on him

June 2016

  • The Living and the Dead.

    TV tonight
    Tuesday’s best TV – The Living and the Dead; Life Inside Jail: Hell on Earth; Born on the Same Day

    Victorian sleuths try to save an ailing estate; prison and drugs stateside, and birthday-sharing with Ricky Tomlinson

December 2015

  • Dennis Warren, left, and Ricky Tomlinson in 1975. Both were jailed after being pickets in the 1972 strike by building workers

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    MPs debate the Shrewsbury 24 case - Politics live

    Rolling coverage of all the day’s political developments as they happen, including PMQS with George Osborne and Angela Eagle
  • Actor plea over pickets conviction<br>File photo dated 12/03/09 of Royle Family star Ricky Tomlinson as Labour will be urged to join a long-running campaign to overturn a 40-year conviction against 24 pickets, including that of the actor. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Wednesday October 3, 2012. The Royle Family star will address a fringe meeting at the party's annual conference in Manchester, calling for support for the so-called Shrewsbury 24, who were arrested and charged under the 1875 Conspiracy Act, with six sent to prison. Tomlinson, who served 16 months of a two-year sentence for conspiracy to intimidate, said he wanted to clear his name before he dies. Terry Renshaw, a delegate at the conference with the building workers union Ucatt, and one of the Shrewsbury 24, said he was confident that the Criminal Cases Review Commission will overturn the charges. See PA story LABOUR Pickets. Photo credit should read: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire

    Burnham backs call to publish all Shrewsbury 24 papers

    Shadow home secretary says Labour could oppose new spying powers unless government releases documents about 1970s ‘show trial’ of union activists
  • The "Shrewsbury TwoO - Dennis Warren (left) and Eric Tomlinson. January 1975 P000169&#13;&#10;<br>The "Shrewsbury Two" Dennis Warren , 36, (left) of Henllan, Denbigh, and Eric Tomlinson, 34, of Wrexham, leaders of a "flying column" of pickets during the 1972 national building strike, whose appeals against conviction and sentences of three years and two years respectively were dismissed by the court of appeal in London. They were convicted last December of conspiracy to intimidate workers on building sites at Shrewsbury and Telford. January 1975 Ricky Tomlinson

    Revealed: Ted Heath behind TV documentary used to sway jury in trial of Shrewsbury trade unionists

    Unseen papers show cabinet promoted documentary aimed at influencing trial of 24 building workers

November 2015

  • Roy Greenslade

    Greenslade
    Norman Giller, football reporter who became a ghostwriting maestro

    Roy Greenslade
    His autobiography is his 100th book... and it probably won’t be his last

December 2014

  • Ricky Tomlinson

    Saturday interview
    Ricky Tomlinson: ‘I’m a whingeing scouser, and I will whinge until they’re made to pay’

    Decca Aitkenhead: In 1973, Ricky Tomlinson spent Christmas in prison after picketing a strike. More than 40 years later, one of our best-loved actors says that the fight to clear the names of the Shrewsbury 24 faces a final hurdle: government secrecy
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