EXCLUSIVE: Kill Your Friends author and screenwriter John Niven has become attached to pen the screenplay for Berlin Bromley, a coming-of-age comedy/drama based on the memoir of Bertie Marshall.

In 1976, a gang of young, early-adopter punk fans, dubbed the “Bromley Contingent” by the British press, began following the Sex Pistols around Europe. One of those fans, William Broad — soon to be ...

The energy of punk attracted a hoard of devoted followers. KERRY ANN EUSTICE learnt some of its earliest fans came from a leafy London suburb If the Sex Pistols' loud, aggressive and anarchistic rock ...

Who would have thought, looking at the original crop of UK punk rockers, that William Broad, aka pretty boy Billy Idol, would be one of the ones to play the long game, plotting a career course which ...

"Oh, Bertie, when are you going to write your memoirs?" asks punk academic Jon Savage at a chance meeting with the author in Berlin. He replies: "Oh, I don't know, Jon... what would I write, a teenage ...

It’s hardly their fault that £7.60 for a single slice of eggy bread with one sliced strawberry seems to be the going rate these days Bromley, to the south-east of London, hasn’t made cultural waves ...

In 1976, when he was 16 years old and living with his mother and stepfather in the south London suburb of Bromley, this memoir's author changed his name from Bertie Marshall to the single-word Berlin.