They say the five most stressful life events are death, divorce, moving, major illness, and job loss. I told my husband if he ...

mockingly, ‘Why aren’t you Chief Constable yet? ’Perhaps that’s the surprise ending tonight . . . silver oak leaves on Vera’s scruffy hat.

For 14 seasons, Oscar-nominated Brenda Blethyn has donned Vera’s drab brown mac, crumpled wax bucket hat and inevitable scarf and bundled it all into a truly ancient Land Rover to stomp around ...