MI5 is actively recruiting new spooks — but spy­masters want applications from would-be Jane Bonds Credit: Alamy. The move is a bid to improve diversity in the ranks.

MI5 today begins a recruitment campaign targeting women because the mayhem and murder of the Spooks TV show is scaring away would-be female recruits.

MI5 is frantically recruiting spooks in record numbers to cope with 23,000 jihadists on the loose in Britain. But it takes more than a year to train new spies before they are ready to combat what ...

Call it sixth sense. The makers of Spooks, BBC1's hit MI5 drama, which begins its eighth series on Wednesday, seem to have an uncanny knack of knowing what's about to happen in the news.

The 57-year-old is about to start filming his 10th series of Spooks as MI5’s head of counter-terrorism Sir Harry Pearce. When he completes it in the summer, he will have been acting for 42 years.

MI5 has been flooded with applications from people wanting to join its ranks after the success of the BBC television series, Spooks, even though the operatives themselves claim that the show is ...

The BBC's espionage drama Spooks is reportedly helping to increase interest in working for security service MI5.. According to The Daily Mail, the number of visits to the MI5 website triples from ...

Wisely known as MI-5 in the States and Spooks on these shores the big screen adventure, The Greater Good, is out in UK Cinemas today. Here are five important things from Colin Hart’s dossier, ...

MI5's website gets TWICE the hits at the end of every episode of the top TV spy thriller Spooks. At about 10pm every Monday - as the BBC show ends - 400,000 people log on to the site compared with ...

Spooks has warped people's views of MI5, with the public believing cases can be solved in 40 minutes, according to Baroness Manningham-Buller, the Service's former director-general.

SPOOKS tapped UB40 pop stars’ phones because MI5 feared they were planning a revolution, the band says.The reggae group — best known for 1983 hit ...

The uncanny premonitions of its writers remain the key to the success of the BBC's MI5 series Spooks, says James Rampton. Jump to content. US Edition Change. UK Edition Asia Edition Edición en ...