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Information for use in fan fiction and anything else related to The Bill. This will be added to and edited every so often and please feel free to comment if you want to add or edit anything.

Part 1

The Bill is set in the fictional Sun Hill which makes up part of the also fictional Borough Of Canley. It's roughly set around the areas of Whitechapel, Stepney, Shadwell, Spitalfields, Portoken, Limehouse and parts of Aldgate, Bishopsgate, Shoreditch and Mile End. It's also known as the Tower Hamlets area. Maps of Sun Hill show the Isle Of Dogs area.

The station address is: Sun Hill Police Station, 2 Sun Hill Road, Canley, London, E1 4KM. The telephone number is 020 7511 1642.

The caution: I am arresting you on suspicion of (OFFENCE: eg murder or sexual assault). You do not have to say anything, but it may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned something which you later rely on in court. Anything you do say will be given in evidence.

This MUST be said, IN FULL, each time someone is arrested and officers MUST make sure that the person understands it ALL.

Vehicle Call Signs:

Area Car (Sierra 1, Sierra 1-2, Sierra 1-7, Sierra Oscar 21 and Sierra Oscar 22)

Van (Sierra 2)

CID Cars (Sierra Oscar 5 to 9) (Sierra-1-1 has lights/siren hidden like below but they have a magnetic light to stick on top like below)

TSG (Sierra Oscar 1-3)

IRV (Sierra Oscar 2-3)

Panda (Sierra Oscar 8-4, 8-5, 8-6, 8-7)

Officer call signs:

Sierra-Oscar 5-2 - Superintendents used this so it was the call sign for Brownlow (and Derek when he was acting Super), Chandler, Okaro, Prosser, Heaton and finally Jack Meadows.

Sierra-Oscar 5-4 was for Chief Inspectors so Derek, Cato and Stritch but the call sign and role was retired at Sun Hill after Derek was killed.

Sierra-Oscar 5-5 was the call sign for DCI's so this is Kim Reid, Frank Burnside and Jack Meadows.

Sierra-Oscar 7-5 was used for Frank Burnside when DI

Sierra-Oscar 3-3 was used for Roy Galloway when DI

Sierra-Oscar 7-0 was used for Neil Manson when DI.

Sierra-Oscar 7-1 was used for Sam Nixon when DI

Need to check on those for Johnson, Wray, Haines and Deakin if required but they can just use rank/surname as described below.

Sierra-Oscar 3-2 was used for DS Geoff Daly

Sierra-Oscar 6-7 was used for DS Don Beech

Sierra-Oscar 2-8 was used for DS John Boulton

Sierra-Oscar 3-6 was used for DC Will Fletcher

Sierra-Oscar 9-8 was used for DC Gary Best

Sierra-Oscar 4-2 was used for DC Grace Dasari.

Sierra-Oscar 3-0 was used for DC Mike Dashwood

Sierra-Oscar 223 was used for DC Rod Skase (in All Change)

Sierra-Oscar 613 was used for DC Duncan Lennox (In All Change)

CID would most often use their rank and surname.

Sierra Oscar 1 was used for all inspectors at the station from Deeping, Kite, Frazer, Monroe, Matt when he was acting Inspector, Gina, Smithy when he was acting inspector, Rachel and then finally Smithy when full inspector. (Smithy was 833 as PC and 54 as Sgt)

SO25 - Rachel Weston

SO30 - Callum Stone

SO33 - Craig Gilmore

SO46 - Jo Masters (after moving from CID to uniform)

SO48 - June Ackland (SO643 when a PC)

SO48 - Diane Noble for one night (she was supposed to return but the ITV cut backs and the show moving to one episode a week meant her two-parter return was edited down to one episode and new scenes filmed to explain she was transfering to Barton St.)

SO54 - Smithy (833 as a PC and Sierra 1 as an Inspector)

SO54 - Jane Kendall and Tom Penny

SO55 - Ray Steele

SO61 - John Maitland

SO66 - Sheelagh Murphy (SO661 wheb demoted to PC)

SO79 - Matt Boyden

SO82 - Joseph Corrie

SO87 - Nikki Wright

SO92 - Bob Cryer

SO95 - Stuart Lamont

SO96 - Alec Peters

SO99 - Phil Hunter (during short punishment stint in uniform)

SO101 - Taffy (Francis Edwards)

SO128 - Lewis Hardy

SO134 - Phil Young

SO139 - Timothy Able

SO140 - Nick Klein

SO148 - Mel Ryder and Yorkie (Tony Smith)

SO149 - Gary Best (Changes so SO 9-8 in CID)

SO158 - Honey Harman

SO171 - Reginald Percival Hollis

SO201 - Dave Litten

SO202 - Kerry Young

SO201 - Pete Muswell

SO212 - Millie Brown

SO217 - Laura Bryant (was SO7667 when a PCSO)

SO218 - George Garfield

SO227 - Viv Martella

SO235 - Roz Clarke

SO249 - Gemma Osbourne

SO251 - Jamila Blake

SO258 - Beth Green

SO275 - Roger Valentine

SO294 - Danesh Patel

SO298 - Yvonne Hemmingway

SO315 - Dan Casper

SO330 - Robin Frank and Ron Smollett

SO335 - Donna Harris

SO340 - Dave Quinnan

SO342 - Abe Lyttleton

SO351 - Malcom Haynes

SO354 - Arun Ghir

SO355 - Cameron Tait

SO358 - Gary McCann

SO361 - Emma Keane and Vicky Hagen

SO362 - Luke Ashton (for his return post 2002)

SO363 - Steve Loxton, Lance Powell and Kirsty Knight

SO408 - Nick Slater

SO416 - Sam Harker, Ken Melvin and Gabriel Kent

SO432 - Luke Ashton (for his first 97-99 stint) and Des Taviner

SO437 - Leela Kapoor and Leon Taylor

SO452 - Adam Bostock

SO469 - Polly Page

SO483 - Diane Noble (was SO48 for her one night stint as Sgt)

SO487 - Cathy Marshall and Rosie Fox

SO510 - Billy Rowan (though poor love lasted half a shift)

SO517 - Mike Jarvis

SO518 - Cass Rickman

SO543 - Will Fletcher

SO561 - Debbie Keane

SO570 - Cathy Bradford

SO577 - Barry Stringer

SO595 - Tony Stamp

SO600 - Jim Carver

SO643 - June Ackland (SO48 as Sgt)

SO659 - Suzanne Ford

SO661 - Sheelagh Murphy (SO66 as Sgt)

SO682 - Di Worrell

SO686 - Sally Armstrong

SO740 - Ben Hayward

SO743 - Pete Ramsey

SO759 - Steve Hunter

SO795 - Ben Gayle

SO800 - Richard Turnham

SO832 - Delia French

SO833 - Smithy (SO54 as Sgt and Sierra 1 when Inspector)

SO876 - Nate Roberts

SO876 - Nick Shaw

SO888 - Amber Johannsen

SO943 - Andrea Dunbar

SO988 - Eddie Santini and Ruby Buxton

FED REPS: Federation Representatives support and advise officers if they've been accused of something or matters like pay, rights, allowances, conduct, equality and development etc. It's often mocked, mostly when Reg is in the position as everyone's favourite busy body, however it is a responsible position and Reg was very good at it if only due to his nitpicking and love of the rule book.

Fed reps: Reg Hollis, Barry Stringer, George Garfield, Nick Klein, Leela Kapoor

The Area Car can only be driven by the officers who are qualified to drive them for example: Roger Valentine, Tony Stamp, Kirsty Knight, Callum Stone, Ben Gayle, Gemma Osbourne, Yvonne Hemmingway, Matt Boyden, Vicky Hagen, Gina Gold, Steve Loxton, Mike Jarvis, Will Fletcher and Des Taviner.

Civillian Staff:

Jonathan Fox - Senior Crown Prosecutor and one time boyfriend of Gina Gold. He left Gina because she wouldn't commit right as she was about to commit to him. She tries to tell him this when he returns during her cancer fight but he's moved on with someone else... she can't handle just being friends so asks him to leave.

Matt Hinkley - Senior Crown Prosecutor

Eddie Olosunje - CSE

Lorna Hart - CSE

Audrey ?? - A CSE who checked Gabriel's clothes and is very friendly with Gina - they play poker together.

Dean McVerry - CAD

Marilyn Chambers - SRO - Reg was about to propose to her and was waiting for her where they had their first date when Colin Fairfax drove his van into the front of the station.

Julian 'JT' Tavell - SRO

Robbie Cryer - SRO (SRO's used to be Front Desk Officers)

DOPA Mia Perry (Press Officer) - Mickey's girlfriend who cheated on him with John Heaton

Margret Barnes - Cleaner who was obsessed with Ramani

Special Constable Terry Knowles (Killed on his first day trying to be like Des)

PCSO Colin Fairfax - Racist who drove a van into the front of the station, killing Ken, Marilyn and Andrea.

PCSO Laura Bryant - Became a full PC.

Marion Layland - Charles Brownlow's long suffering PA.

Rochelle Barrett - Drugs Referral Officer

Tom Kent - FME in the early 90's

Important Reoccurring Characters (Police):

Guy Mannion - Chief Super to Brownlow and then Borough Commander. Pain in the arse.

Trevor Hicks - DAC/Assistant Commissioner

Georgia Hobs - DAC

Roy Pearson - DAC. Neil Manson's father in law and user of rent boys. Murdered by one after attempting to retrieve a video that was being used to blackmail him.

Lisa Kennedy - Commander (Her son is involved in an altercation that leads to disaster at a football match)

Jane Fitzwilliam - Borough Commander

Louise Campbell - Borough Commander

Ian Barrett - Borough Commander - tried to blackmail PC Dan Casper into ending his affair with his wife, Rochelle. Ended up getting Dan held at gunpoint and left Sun Hill alongside his wife.

Amanda Prosser - acting Superintendent whilst Adam took time off following the death of his family in an RTA. Upset a bereaved father who then took her hostage at gunpoint and caused a siege at Sun Hill (second live episode)

Rowanne Morell - DI/DCI who came in to investigate a case and then came in as cover for Neil whilst he took some time off after his father in law's death/end of his marriage.

Andrew Ross - DCI if I remember rightly he was part of MIT and kept coming over for murders - the Serial Killer/Des's Fire bombing/Cathy's murders etc.

Frank Keane - DCI from MIT. Rubbed everyone up the wrong way and thought the sun shone out of his daughter - Emma's - arse.

Karen Lacy - stuck up DI from SO15 who immediately alienated most of Sun Hill after Emma's death by refusing to let her friends in uniform help and would only let them man a cordon and then told Jack that CID could only help if EVERYTHING was ran through her and came back to her and her alone.

Tom Baker - TREV which was a fan coined term that stands for Totally Reliable Extra Veteran'. Tom was an outstanding back up CID member for over a thousand episodes. He's even in the Guiness Book Of World Records for it.

Terry Knowles - Terry was a Special Constable who idolised Des and wanted to be like him. He tried to copy how he'd seen him pick up a woman and flirted at a blonde in a convertible. Unfortunately it all went wrong when she stabbed him in the neck and severed his jugular and he died, leaving a 2 year old son fatherless.

Doug Wright - husband of Sgt Nikki Wright. Nikki transferred to Sun Hill when she got fed up of the confusion over two Sgt Wright's and then having to work opposing shifts. He's based at Sun Hill but they cross over to police a football match. Sadly Doug ends up getting stabbed and they realise there's a Cop Killer on the loose after he taunts them and goes on to murder new recruit Billy Rowan on his very first day.

Mark Rollin - Lance Powell's Boyfriend/Fiance/Civil Partner/Husband. Mark is a Sgt in CO19 and keeps his sexuality hidden to avoid the banter and bullying. He goes to pieces after shooting dead Jeff Clarke and he and Lance separate - only for Lance to go out drinking to try cheer himself up and be murdered.

Steve Hodges - an irritating little man who was the Detective Superintendent at CIB at the time that Claire Stanton was undercover trying to get information to prove that Don Beech was corrupt. He expected Claire to pull evidence out her arse and moaned constantly.

Rachel Kitson - Crime Scene Photographer who murdered old school friend turned Super Model Cindy Statham. She got away with it and someone else was accused and locked up...but then Jo went back and looked at the footage again as she had a niggling feeling. Rachel realised she was on to her and took her hostage at gunpoint. It was Stuart getting suspicious when he received a text calling him 'hun' and realising that something was very wrong that saved her life with seconds to go.

Important Reoccurring Characters (Civilians):

Rod Jessop - June's second husband after Jim. He is a headteacher and a good man who has 2 children of his own. At first June isn't too sure as she thinks he's a little too keen but she warms to him and they fall in love and take early retirement together.

Irene Radford - Mother of Karl, Wayne and David Radford, a large crime family with a history going back decades with Gina. She takes Gina hostage at one point and she and David are literally seconds from killing Smithy and Kerry at another point!

Louise Larson - Wife of Pete Larson. Unhappily married but settled until she met Smithy. Feisty, sarcastic and full of one liners, she kept him on his toes and they wanted to leave after she agreed to give evidence (Pete was arrested after almost murdering Smithy. I'm sensing a theme here).

Abi Nixon - The cause of Sam shrieking "MY DAUGHTER!!!!!" Had a fling with Matt Boyden - as you do. Then ended up pregnant and engaged to Hugh Wallis - a profiler - who manipulated Abi into it as revenge. He forced Sam to think her daughter was a victim of the Serial Killer. She keeps the baby and her relationship with her mother improves.

Cindy Hunter - Phil Hunter's wife who sees all he does on the side and - usually forgives him, even when a major criminal demands he be allowed to sleep with Cindy. Gregory doesn't force her to sleep with him but does take degrading pictures of her to wind Phil up. She still forgives him... but she can't get past finding out he has a daughter with another major criminals wife when they are trying for a baby of their own and they finally split.

Jenny Delaney - The girlfriend of George Garfield at first, Jenny is the nurse who looks after Dave Quinnan when he is attacked and left for dead in a youth club. She and Dave fall in love and have an affair which ends up in George leaving Sun Hill. They marry but do not get their happily ever after as Dave and Polly grow closer... and closer...

Kristen Shaw - Drug dealer who Zain goes undercover to catch and he ends up falling for her. She accidentally murders Honey by shooting her when the gun goes off in a struggle (Honey was trying to get Zain to do the right thing and arrest her with him). Zain reluctantly puts Honey's body in the water and they try to escape but in the end he can't go through with it and refuses to get on the boat with her to escape. He removed the bullets from her gun and so both end up arrested.

James Tennant - The father of Amy Tennant. This storyline goes on forever for over a year and Neil and James get close and become good friends through it before Amy is found.

Scott Burnett - Scott is the husband of a woman who is found murdered. At first his best friend is charged with it and as his FLO, Honey helps support him through it. They fall in love and in a whirlwind romance they get married.... only for Honey to realise that Scott actually murdered his first wife!

Laura Meadows - Jack's long suffering wife who put up with a lot, including affairs. It comes to a head when Jack - in full midlife crisis mode - thinks he's in love with Debbie McAllister and wants to support her and her new baby. Debbie thinks of him mostly as a father figure and is horrified when he finally puts the moves on.

Lilian Rickman - Cass' mum is devastated when her daughter is killed by the Sun Hill Serial Killer. She travels down and bonds with the team and later invites them to the funeral in Liverpool which some travel up to and then have to go straight on shift once they get back to London. She later returns to tie up the sale of Cass' flat and she and Tony grow closer and end up sleeping together.

Marie Graham/Carver - The bereaved mother whos daughter killed herself after being accused of sleeping with underage students. She's an alcoholic who seemed to understand Jim and all his problems... and then started to abuse him 2 days after their marriage. (he should have known it was a bad omen when he and June almost kissed the day of the wedding when trapped with Polly and Tony!)He is accused of abusing her before he ends up in hospital (Gabriel hit him over the back of the head with a vodka bottle - long story) and he cracks under accusations and shows his many wounds. He leaves Marie and goes on to recover and get back together with June... only for Marie to turn up on THEIR wedding day and cause a scene at the reception and then fall down the stairs and knock herself out. Jim, with a sprained ankle, ends up going into hospital too!

Pauline Smith - Smithy's mum seen in Killer On The Run. His father was an abusive drunk who used to knock her and Smithy around until Smithy was old enough to go out with his friends. Smithy has little to do with his unnamed father and next to no contact. She adores her son and is very proud of him. They are close and Smithy has a key to her house. He also had an unnamed little brother as a PC (mentioned in Soft Talking) but this seemed forgotten when he returned as a Sgt.

More family/love connections can be found here.

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klc-archive · 18 years

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Fragments from Episode 396 of The Bill.

DCI Meadows, DS Hunter, DC Webb and DC Nadir try to unravel a series of property deals involving Pete Larson and Joel Gates and prove a connection with Carl Caplan, who claims to have seen Sgt Smith kill Louise Larson. Meanwhile, Smith is being bullied in H.M.P. Longmarsh by Keith’s character Chris Hammond.

#Keith Lee Castle #The Bill #S22xE19 #Episode 396 #Chris Hammond #2006 #TV #Fragments #Video

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inspector-monroe-wants-a-word · 4 years

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Look, Andrew and Jack are definitely a couple and no one can convince me otherwise. I have too many fanfiction ideas for that.

#The Bill #Jack Meadows #Andrew Monroe #DCI Meadows #Inspector Monroe #Simon Rouse #Colin Tarrant #Jack/Andrew #Jack Meadows/Andrew Monroe #I'm not joking #I have literally pages worth of fanfiction ideas #And I'm now totally committed

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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grasses and gentians of glacial meadows, in craggy garden nooks full of nature's darlings. Climb the mountains and get their good tidings, Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature's sources never fail.“ - John Muir - Our National Parks, 1901

El Capitan, Half Dome, Yosemite Falls. Everyone knows those famous attractions of the nature in Yosemite National Park.

All these are within a few square miles around the Yosemite Valley. Yosemite Valley is less than 1% of the whole Yosemite National Park area. Any many visitors only see that valley. Its like the heart of Yosemite National Park and thats why we want to bring it to the screens in incredibly detailed 8k resolution with real High Dynamic Range (HDR), 50fps and cinematic field of view in 1:2,39.

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Stock Footage and Licensing: 3motion.tv

EQUIPMENT: Camera: 2x Canon 5DS R and Sony Alpha 7RII Lenses: Canon 16-35mm III, Canon 24-70mm II, Canon 70-200mm II, Zeiss Otus 28, Zeiss Otus 85, Zeiss Batis 25, Zeiss Batis 85 Motion Control: Dynamic Perception with eMotimo Spectrum ST4 with FZ Motor Postproduction: LRTimelapse and Adobe Lightroom, Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve Format: 8k DCI (8192x3428), graded in BT.2020 with PQ-cuve for HDR, 10 bit and 12 bit Workflow and near 21:9 aspect ratio

PRODUCTION NOTES: Time: 4 days and 4 nights / 60 h of time lapsed Photos: 45.000 RAW-Footage: 3,6 TB

#Yosemite #timelapse #video #geology #granite #national park #night #sky #dark sky #wanderlust #find your park #california #half dome #yosemite falls #el capitan #the earth sotry

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1440phut · 5 years

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Nhiều máy tính trong Lầu Năm Góc chia sẻ phim ấu dâm

“Chúng ta phải đấu tranh và có cơ chế pháp lý chống lại hành động sử dụng mạng máy tính của Lầu Năm Góc và chính phủ để xem, tạo ra hoặc chia sẻ những hình ảnh, video ấu dâm”, nữ nghị sĩ đảng Dân chủ Abigail Spanberger phát biểu trong phiên họp về ENDNA tại Hạ viện ngày 2.7. Bà và nghị sĩ đảng Cộng hòa Mark Meadows phối hợp soạn thảo dự luật này, theo RT. Cũng theo dự luật, DCIS sẽ thiết lập cơ…

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aion-rsa · 4 years

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Line of Duty: Why You Should be Watching the Hit UK Crime Thriller

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On the 22nd of July 2005, the day after a series of failed terrorist bombing attempts in the UK capital and a fortnight after fifty-two people had been killed in the London Underground bombings, a Metropolitan Police surveillance team misidentified Brazilian electrician Jean-Charles de Menezes as a fugitive terrorist and fatally shot him as he entered Stockwell Tube Station.

The aftermath of de Menezes’ death, the circumstances of which were the subject of intense press speculation in the run up to a 2008 inquest that resulted in no criminal prosecution for the officers involved, caught the imagination of screenwriter Jed Mercurio.

Previously the creator of Cardiac Arrest and Bodies, a pair of TV dramas that exposed troubling aspects of the modern public health service, Mercurio would use a fictional version of the de Menezes shooting as the way in to a drama that would give UK police procedure the same treatment. When policing goes tragically wrong, where along the line of command does the blame lie? When resources are allocated according to success rates, when cutbacks are made, and when targets are prioritised over public service, what is the fallout?

Mercurio dramatised these questions in Line of Duty, 2012’s gripping BBC Two thriller, currently being repeated on BBC One to fill the schedules emptied by the effects of COVID-19. Filmed in Birmingham and set in a bureaucracy-heavy, target-driven urban crime unit, Line of Duty tells the story of DCI Tony Gates (Lennie James), the head of a criminal investigative team whose results have won him the title of Officer of the Year.

As you might expect, over the course of the five hour drama, a question mark is hung over Gates’ suitability for the accolade. Is he the squeaky clean officer his target record suggests? Is his team the model unit they appear to be on paper? Asking those questions is DS Steve Arnott (Martin Compston), a recent transfer to Anti-Corruption, and an unwelcome newcomer to the Midlands unit. Who watches the watchmen? AC do, not that anybody thanks them for it.

Though core characters continue to the second series, Line of Duty’s first run works as a standalone drama. It’s a five-hour episodic story pivoting on the fulcrum of Tony Gates’ character. Is he really a bent cop, or a victim of circumstance? Along with the audience, AC-12’s position on Tony rotates from corrupt to clean (well, cleanish), from ally to enemy and back again.

Moving us through Gates’ many facets is Lennie James (The Walking Dead, Save Me), a stage and screen actor and writer whose talent is responsible in no small part for series one’s success. Even in Line Of Duty’s more sensational cop thriller moments, James’ performance as Gates is varied, layered and credible. Gates is a family man and he’s an adulterer, he’s a careerist surrounded by cronies and – to borrow from The Wire – he’s good police. All of those aspects James plays with absolute conviction.

Joining James in the ranks of talented cast are Vicky McClure and Martin Compston as DS Fleming and DS Arnott. When series one aired in 2012, both young actors were better known for indie film and, in McClure’s case, improvised drama (she was heart-breaking as Lol in Shane Meadows’ This Is England series) and perhaps because of that, both bring that sense of naturalism to the often clichéd world of TV crime drama. Over the next four series, each one a steadily growing word-of-mouth hit for the BBC, McClure and Compston have become beloved by fans and are now indissociable from their AC-12 double-act. (The surrounding cast just continues to improve too, with guest stars in later series including Keeley Hawes, Daniel Mays, Thandie Newton and Stephen Graham.)

Line Of Duty series 6: cast, filming, plot, episodes and more

By Louisa Mellor

Jed Mercurio on Line Of Duty series 5: ‘Familiarity will be our undoing’

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In Line of Duty, we meet young, optimistic police, and jaded, unsympathetic box-tickers. There are officers driven by a strong sense of duty, and those in it just for the pension and to repay personal debts. We see the police both hamstrung by, and choosing to, prioritise paperwork and statistics over justice. There are so many tiny derelictions of duty fringing the central corruption investigation that it’s no wonder active police weren’t happy to advise on the drama; it doesn’t flatter the profession.

There are, however, enough good-hearted, sound-thinking characters for the series not to be an attack on modern policing. It’s an empathetic precinct drama with things to say about loyalty and the difficulty of taking an ethical stand.

Gina McKee, Craig Parkinson, Adrian Dunbar, Paul Higgins and TV’s Neil Morrissey all slot in without a glitch around James, Compston and McClure’s central trio. That the cast has no weak links carries Line of Duty over scenes set in a one-dimensional ‘sink estate’ populated, it seems, solely by prostitute mums, feral kids and crack-dealing young black men in hoodies.

That said, if you were to tick off how many of the crime drama clichés lampooned by Charlie Brooker and Daniel Maier in their sharply observed 2012-14 A Touch of Cloth spoofs appear in Line of Duty, its score card would be sparse. Not empty, mind you, but it sits high above the watermark for the genre.

Yes, there are shock cliff-hangers, yes, every so often a character will thump his chest and declare himself a “proper copper” and yes, the title is spoken aloud in a crucial final scene, but those are rare moments of broadly drawn cop show stuff. It’s the drama’s quieter insights and stand-out performances that stay with you.

Line of Duty is so well-made a drama with such a sage perspective about modern policing that its few frustrations – the undeveloped junior officers, its tabloid vision of estate life, Gates’ wife’s lack of any kind of character – are perhaps felt more keenly than they would were it just any other crime thriller. It does so much so well that its brief dips seem all the more noticeable.

By having an agenda other than using violent crime to shock and titillate, Line of Duty stands almost alone as a UK police thriller. It examines the bureaucratic culture of modern policing alongside the slit throats, detached fingers and freezer-stuffed bodies. If you weren’t among the 4.1 million-strong UK audience for Line of Duty back in 2012, or the millions more who joined between then and the mega-hit fifth series in 2019, now is the perfect time to get on board.

Line of Duty series one is currently being repeated at 9pm on BBC One on Monday and Tuesday nights.

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gayness-and-mayhem · 4 years

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I have a large framed photo of DCI Jack Meadows and a bottle of Smirnoff in my eyeline. What has my strange little life descended into?

#The Bill #Jack Meadows #Simon Rouse #Smirnoff #Oh dear #Everything is strange

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jenmedsbookreviews · 6 years

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This Bank Holiday weekend I went on a duck hunt… It wasn’t intentional, and no ducks were hurt on this venture of mine, I promise. My sister and I took a day trip out to Ironbridge which has a kind of Duck Walk, linked to Severn Hospice and consisting of several brightly decorated duck statues which will eventually be auctioned for charity. If you didn’t see it, you probably wouldn’t believe it …

This was on day two of a long walk weekend in which we traversed more than 14 miles, I managed to hurt my foot in some indescribable way, Mandie hurt her knee and got blisters and we consumed some very lovely Salted Caramel cake at Truffles Cafe in Ironbridge. Yum.

We did walk it off with a lovely stroll along the river and back and a side trip to Benthall Hall, and aside from half a cheese scone and an Ironbridge Pasty, it was my only food for the day …

Found some lovely places for body dumps but it has to be said that a certain Mr Mark Edwards has already been there … 😉

Busy week at work – 2 days on the road with a double trip down to London on Tuesday and Wednesday. Bummer is that I had to be up and out by 5am two days on the bounce. Good news is that I managed to sneak in a couple of audio books along the way adding to my already good reading tally for the week. Yip yip.

Quiet week on the old book front. I am back to the no book post, although my signed copy of Sarah Hilary’s Come and Find Me did turn up from Goldsboro Books so that was nice.

I made two book purchases in the week, both pre-orders. KL Slater’s The Secret and book one in a new series from Rachel Abbott, And So It Begins. So new it doesn;t have a cover lol.

I did buy a few audible books though … I’m back on the road now so they’ll soon be listened to. First up was Girl On Fire by Tony Parsons. I also treated myself to The Reckoning by Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Murder at the Grand Raj Palace by Vaseem Khan. I got both as new releases on kindle this past week too, but I know I’ve more chance to listen than read right now, so this is an investment of the wisest kind.

One Netgalley ARC this week – Summer at the Little Cottage on the Hill by Emma Davies (which I also snuck a pre-order of in as I was writing this post …) Well … It is set in my home county 😉

Books I have read

Dead Blind – Rebecca Bradley

How do you identify a ruthless killer when you can’t even recognise your own face in a mirror?

Returning to work following an accident, Detective Inspector Ray Patrick refuses to disclose he now lives with face blindness – an inability to recognise faces.

As Ray deceives his team he is pulled into a police operation that targets an international trade in human organs. And when he attempts to bring the organisation down, Ray is witness to a savage murder.

But it’s a killer he will never remember.

The pressure mounts as Ray attempts to keep his secret and solve the case alone. With only his ex-wife as a confidant he feels progressively isolated.

Can he escape with his career and his life intact?

I’m not sure how I would cope if I were ever to suffer from face-blindness. I suffer name blindness now, so don’t be offended if I refer to you as mate – at least it means I know we’ve met before, even if I can’t recall your name … I’ll be sharing my thoughts on the book with you all tomorrow, publication day, but you can order a copy right here.

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The Fear – CL Taylor

Sometimes your first love won’t let you go…

When Lou Wandsworth ran away to France with her teacher Mike Hughes, she thought he was the love of her life. But Mike wasn’t what he seemed and he left her life in pieces.

Now 32, Lou discovers that he is involved with teenager Chloe Meadows. Determined to make sure history doesn’t repeat itself, she returns home to confront him for the damage he’s caused.

But Mike is a predator of the worst kind, and as Lou tries to bring him to justice, it’s clear that she could once again become his prey…

One of the two audio books I listened to in the week, I’ve had mixed feelings about this book and am going to take my time over the review. The premise is a very good one, the characters thoroughly unlikable, but so many times I found myself wanting to slap more than one of them and tell them not to be so stupid. Fans of the authors will be more than happy. I may have been blighted by tiredness due to the early morning start, but need a little more time to process. You can order a copy of the book here.

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Hangman – Daniel Cole

18 months after the ‘Ragdoll’ murders, a body is found hanging from Brooklyn Bridge, the word ‘BAIT’ carved into the chest.

In London a copycat killer strikes, branded with the word ‘PUPPET’, forcing DCI Emily Baxter into an uneasy partnership with the detectives on the case, Special Agents Rouche and Curtis.

Each time they trace a suspect, the killer is one step ahead. With the body count rising on both sides of the Atlantic, can they learn to trust each other and identify who is holding the strings before it is too late?

Oh how I loved Ragdoll. Read it in one night, got no sleep until I had finished. I had high hopes for Hangman … It surpassed every single one of them. So dark, so twisted, so absolutely fantastic. I love my thrillers just like this. Missed Wolf – who wouldn’t – but I did like Rouche – Rooch – Roache ;). I’ll be sharing my thoughts soon but you can order a copy of the book here. I highly recommend you do.

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The Old You – Louise Voss

Nail-bitingly modern domestic noir A tense, Hitchcockian psychological thriller Louise Voss returns with her darkest, most chilling, novel yet…

Lynn Naismith gave up the job she loved when she married Ed, the love of her life, but it was worth it for the happy years they enjoyed together. Now, ten years on, Ed has been diagnosed with early-onset dementia, and things start to happen; things more sinister than missing keys and lost words. As some memories are forgotten, others, long buried, begin to surface … and Lynn’s perfect world begins to crumble.

But is it Ed’s mind playing tricks, or hers…?

I can’t lie. I have really been struggling to get into psychological thrillers or domestic noir novels of late. I can’t put my finger on why. Perhaps I have read too many. This book … This is the book I have been waiting for. Something compelling about the writing, something which just drew me in and kept me invested and engaged until the very last page. I’ll share my full thoughts next week as part of the tour but you can find your own copy of the book here.

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Fault Lines – Doug Johnstone

Brilliantly constructed speculative crime fiction A classic whodunit Dark psychological suspense

Doug Johnstone returns with his most explosive and original thriller yet…

A little lie … a seismic secret … and the cracks are beginning to show…

In a reimagined contemporary Edinburgh, where a tectonic fault has opened up to produce a new volcano in the Firth of Forth, and where tremors are an everyday occurrence, volcanologist Surtsey makes a shocking discovery.

On a clandestine trip to new volcanic island The Inch, to meet Tom, her lover and her boss, she finds his lifeless body, and makes the fatal decision to keep their affair, and her discovery, a secret. Desperate to know how he died, but also terrified she’ll be exposed, Surtsey’s life quickly spirals into a nightmare when someone makes contact – someone who claims to know what she’s done…

Set in an Edinburgh you will both recognise and not, this is a thrilling murder mystery which powers along at a good pace to a final, tense and thrilling conclusion. My first book by Doug Johnstone but definitely not my last. You can find your own copy here.

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So that was it. A little bit of study, some short stories in between times, just because I can, but a fairly uneventful week. Blog wise I kept my hand in – as you do. Highlights below.

Cover Reveal: KL Slater

This Is How It Ends by Eva Dolan

The Devil’s Dice by Roz Watkins

Ten Year Stretch – 10 Years of CrimeFest.

#BlogTour: The Fear by CL Taylor

Press Release: Bloody Scotland 2018

A Fractured Winter by Alison Baillie

The Craftsman by Sharon Bolton

Fairly quiet week ahead too. Two blog tours and a few reviews (hopefully). Tours are for The Retreat by Mark Edwards and The Louisiana Republic by Maxim Jakubowski.

Have a brilliant week all and for those of you who are able, enjoy the lovely sunny wather on this oh too rare of Bank Holidays. I’m on countdown for Crime Fest now with a few bookish events along the way. Assuming my foot doesn’t fall off. I’ll still attend them all of course, I may just be a little lopsided.

Jen

Rewind, Recap: Weekly update w/e 06/05/18 This Bank Holiday weekend I went on a duck hunt... It wasn't intentional, and no ducks were hurt on this venture of mine, I promise.

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Found a rather long list of quotes on an external HD whilst sorting. I assume it's from Sierra-Oscar as otherwise I don't remember compiling it, especially as they're not all the fun ones! So below - the first two pages! Will add more here and there.

*Mickey and Duncan are going to see Santa, who is now rehearsing for Panto* Mickey: "He's behind you!" Duncan: "Oh, no he's not!" Mickey: Tell you what - it is a right laugh at murder….gallous humour me governor calls it Mickey: Good old Debbie with that big fat mouth of hers. Mickey: He held me in his arms…the grumpy old DCI….gruff Jack Meadows the guv’nor….he let me hug him…. Andrea: Really? Tell me more? Mickey: I could tell you loads girl, but I’d have to shoot ya! Andrea: What about Inspector Gold, she’s a right character! Mickey: Well she is a bit of an old dragon…..rumour has it that her and Okaro had an affair….in about 1922… Andrea: *laughs* come off it….she’s not that old….*drinks* Her and Okaro were a couple?! Eva: *walks up behind and slams the evidence bag on the table* CCTV Footage….Alan Shields office… Andrea: I….I better be going…. Mickey: Yeah….see you later…. Andrea: See you later….. *walks off* Mickey: timing….I was in there! Eva: I’ll buy a hat for the wedding….come on….. Debbie: She’s going to MIT? Jack: Do you have a problem with that? Debbie: No - I just…err… Mickey: Don’t kid yourself Debbie….please!!! Debbie: *Scottish accent* Something about the crime scene just didn’t add up, so I thought I’d flutter my incredibly long eyelashes at the DI…I mean I’m so clever! Mickey: Debbie… *Debbie looks round and sees Andrea stood behind her* Mickey: You sticking around? Andrea: Well, I’d love to….but I’ve gotta be somewhere else… Kerry: Oooh - a man!? Andrea: Just a friend! *walks off* Mickey: I thought I was in there! Kerry: You and every man in the place…..where’s my drink? Mickey: So - you’re gonna be training with my squad for 6 months….you reckon you can handle it? Eva: I’ll be showing you up mate! Mickey: Ooh come and have a go girl if you think you’re hard enough!

Smithy: The lido? Reg: Yeah - open air swimming pool….actually that one’s the scene of my triumph as a young man….. Smithy: What triumph? *Reg beckons him on, Smithy sighs and follows* Mr Hipkiss: It’s kids….they get in via the broken security grills…. Smithy: Well perhaps you need to replace the broken security grills…. Smithy: Alright every one, listen up, we’re all really pleased that Des has been nicked, and by us, not MIT….but we need to decide how we’re gonna handle him…so…off the record, no rank *sits down* Phil: Who’s on custody? June: I am Phil: Can you sort out the CCTV? June: Why? Phil: Cos some of us might like to pay Des a visit….you know what I mean… Tony: Well forget it….you heard what the Super said…anything happened to Des while he’s here, and his brief will have a field day! Phil: He killed 6 coppers Tony! Tony: Yeah – and they were my friends – not yours! Nick: And mine….you saying I shouldn’t spit in his food? Tony: Well if you do that Nick, where we gonna draw the line? Nick: *looks at Smithy* Speak freely right? Cool….well personally Tony I’d like to kick his head in….are you telling me that you wouldn’t? Tony: Yes I am…. Nick: Right…. Smithy: Ok…let’s calm down…now Des has made fools out of us for a long time….and I know we’d like to pay him back for that…and we are gonna get our chance…. Nick: Yes we will…. Smithy: Yeah – in a court of law Tony: Hear hear… Smithy: What if Des stands up in court and says we intimidated him? Who knows….he might even walk free…..what would the families of the people who died think of us then? Gary: Scum…. Smithy: Let’s not give him a glimmer of hope…. Phil: Oh come on! Smithy: Nobody touches him, nobody spits in his food….no-one even looks at him funny….while he’s in this nick, we treat him like royalty! Phil: Royalty! Are you taking the mick? June: Well I agree with Smithy….show him we’ve got a bit of bloody dignity – even if he hasn’t…..*all stand up and leave* Polly: Well said Tone…. Tony: Cheers Pol…I’m not too sure Nick isn’t right though! Smithy "But if I am right, and he was raped, he'll need support won't he?" Debbie (under her breath) "Lucky him!"

Smithy - 'But our clubs just a bit of a laugh, that's all.' Gina - 'Not if Gabriel Kent's behind it all.' Smithy - 'What's your problem with Gabriel?' Gina - 'Cos he's bad news. And you'll find that out in your own sweet time.' Gina: I quoted him word for word. He said you're a homophobe... Smithy: Not at all Gina: ...that you're a disgrace on the service... Smithy: That's not right Gina: ...and - and this is the part I particularly like - that you're probably just trying to hide your own side underneath it all! Gina: *To Smithy* "You've got a couple of keen officers. *Smithy looks puzzled.* Beauty and the Beast?" Smithy: "Sorry Ma'am?" Gina: "PC's Young and Taviner."

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El Capitan, Half Dome, Yosemite Falls. Everyone knows those famous attractions of the nature in Yosemite National Park.

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Every day we will have Authors from different genres answering my exclusive questionnaire.

Tana Collins ~ Crime Fiction Takeover Interview

Which crime novel stayed with you long after you had finished?

It would have to be Peter Robinson’s ‘In a Dry Season’. I loved it for its atmosphere, characterisation and how it evokes the 1940’s. It was the first ever crime novel that I read and for that reason it really changed my life. Who would have thought fourteen years later I would have become a crime writer myself and that I would have a quote from Peter Robinson for my second book, Care to Die which was published on 1st June. It’s a dream come true

If you had, to sum up, Edinburgh in four words, what would they be?

Historic, vibrant, interesting and windy

Who is your favourite fictional crime character and why?

Perhaps unsurprisingly Peter Robinson’s DCI Banks. He makes me feel safe

What is your favourite part of Edinburgh and why?

I live in Morningside which I love but I think my favourite part of the city has to be Stockbridge. I love the unique character of that area and the fact it has the feel of a village. It reminds me of London.

If you could have dinner with four fictional crime characters who would they be?

Moriarty because I want to understand his motivations, Rebus because he’d bring plenty of good whisky with him; Montalbano in the hope he might fly us all to Sicily for some al fresco dining and my own Inspector Jim Carruthers as he’d really enjoy meeting the other three!

About your own work, where do you find inspiration for your books?

Inspiration is all around me. A chance encounter with a stranger, overhearing conversations, news items; world events. I also have a very strong imagination. The inspiration is never ending.

If your current book had a theme song what would it be?

My novels are set in Fife and I’ve always said if they became films I would love local Fifer, King Creosote to do the music for them so anything by King Creosote would work for me!

Write the scene of a crime for us, set in Edinburgh, one paragraph long. Include these three items ~ Banana, Greyfriars Bobby and The Wash Bar.

Having finished her banana daiquiri the woman with the flaming red hair hastened out of the Wash Bar. Walking to the Meadows for her rendez-vous with Felix she saw a couple by Greyfriars Bobby struggling to read a map as the wind tore at their clothes. Suddenly she couldn’t breathe and clutching her throat with her hands she dropped to her knees. Why had she finished that drink? She thought it had tasted strange. She felt hot, her body temperature soaring. She vomited as she collapsed on to the pavement, convulsing as she lay. The map slipped out of the hands of the couple as they looked on in alarm.

Do you have any events lined up either online or in person that my readers could attend?

I’m on panels at Newcastle Crime Writer’s Festival and hopefully Crimefest next year. Bit of a time to wait but will be appearing at another Edinburgh Noir at the Bar later this year so I’ll keep you posted!

Could you tell us about your current novel and how you got inspired to write it?

I’m in the middle of the edit for the third Inspector Carruthers novel, Mark of the Devil, which is due out 2018. The inspiration for this novel came, in part, from a visit to Tallinn and a stay in the Hotel Viru which included a trip to the secret top floor where the KGB spied on foreigners. It was fascinating so I had to create a storyline that led Carruthers over to Estonia, although I have to say the novel’s not necessarily about spies

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Robbing The Dead & Care To Die By Tana Collins

Robbing the Dead

In a small Scottish university town, what links a spate of horrible murders, a targeted bomb explosion and a lecturer’s disappearance? Is a terror group involved? If so, who is pulling the strings? And what does something that happened over forty years ago have to do with it?

Having recently returned to Castletown in the hope of winning back his estranged wife, DCI Jim Carruthers finds himself up to his eyes in the investigation.

Struggling with a very different personal problem, DS Andrea Fetcher assists Jim in the hunt for the murderous perpetrators. To prevent further violence they must find the answers quickly. But will Jim’s old adversary, terror expert McGhee, be a help or a hindrance?

The first in a new series featuring DCI Jim Carruthers

Care to Die

Struggling with his demotion back to DI and his concern for the grieving DS Andrea Fletcher, Jim Carruthers is thrown in at the deep end when the body of an old man is discovered stabbed to death in a nature reserve- a ball of cloth rammed into the back of the victim’s throat. The only suspect is a fifteen-year-old neighbour who is known to the police for antisocial behaviour. But the teenager has an alibi.

When a second elderly man is also found dead at the same locale, with the same MO, Carruthers starts to wonder if they have a serial killer on their hands.

On discovering that the first victim, Ruiridh Fraser, has an estranged son living in Iceland, Carruthers flies out to interview the man, now convinced that the reason behind Fraser’s death lies in his past.

But what does the disappearance of a twelve year old boy forty years before, the brutal murder of a former journalist and a bitter local dispute about a nature reserve have to do with the investigation?

Can Carruthers and Fletcher solve the case while battling their own demons?

And are they hunting for one killer or more?

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