It’s the hit crime drama that turned Brenda Blethyn into the household name – but after 14 years, Vera is officially coming to an end.
Earlier this week, ITV confirmed that the 78-year-old will return for one final season, which will be filmed in Northumberland this summer.
Since Vera began in 2011, the show has starred several industry heavyweights – including the late Paul Ritter, Notting Hill’s Gina McKee and Catastrophe star Mark Bonnar.
However, the series also helped to
The triumphant tweet said it all. ‘I fought the law and I WON!’ announced Ellie Wilson, telling the world of a groundbreaking victory — one that she hopes will change the way rape victims are treated in court.
Ellie, 26, is one extraordinary young woman who has done a lot of healing in the public spotlight. It is four years since she summoned up the courage to tell police that her abusive then-partner had raped her.
The odds were against
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“France shouldn’t boast and wave the word ‘sovereignty’ left and right. The government completely lacks coherence.”
– centrist Senator Catherine Morin-Desailly told Euractiv, commenting on the Mistral AI – Microsoft deal
Story of the week: The announcement of Paris-based company Mistral AI’s first commercial distribution partnership with US Big Tech Microsoft drew reactions from politicians in Brussels
Are you ready for some news that will make you feel old? Today Facebook, the social media giant that changed the world, turns 20 years old.
In those two decades Facebook’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, has morphed from a nerdy frat boy into Silicon Valley’s billionaire bogeyman.
And, the product he created has undergone a no less bewildering transformation.
From the birth of the Newsfeed to the death of long-forgotten features, the Facebook we know has come a long way since
The season of advent calendars is swiftly approaching, and it’s not limited to those filled with chocolate treats displayed on supermarket shelves.
Impeccably designed packages, packed with premium haircare, skincare and make-up products, have become essential for beauty enthusiasts, with some of the UK’s biggest brands – including Lookfantastic, Charlotte Tilbury, Jo Malone, Liberty and Fortum & Mason – getting in on the action.
Packaged in various designs, from jewellery-style boxes to a miniature house, these high-end countdowns offer premium
Mariner 10 flew by Mercury three times from 1974 to 1975. The NASA spacecraft encountered a cratered, moonlike terrain as it mapped the planet’s surface (a photomosaic of the southern hemisphere shown).
JPL-Caltech/NASA
Off to Mercury with a cold glance — Science News, November 10, 1973
Mercury ho! Mariner 10 is on its way. Venus ho, too. Launched at 12:45 a.m. (EST) on Nov. 3, Mariner should pass within
Volkswagen has just taken the covers off what will likely be its last ‘traditional’ family car launched with a petrol or diesel engines under the bonnet.
The new Passat has been unveiled overnight – and the big news is that it won’t be available as a saloon from 2024, with the latest iteration sold as an estate car only.
As VW accelerates its shift towards electric vehicles (EVs) – already confirming its current Mk8 Golf will be its last with
It’s a project that claims to use cryptocurrency to distribute money across the world, though its bigger ambition is to create a global identity system called “World ID” that relies on individuals’ unique biometric data to prove that they are humans. It officially launched on July 24 in more than 20 countries, and Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI and one of the biggest tech celebrities right now, is one of the cofounders of the project.
The company makes big,
Russia attacked the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, with at least 10 drones overnight, damaging a multistory administrative tower and other buildings, Ukrainian officials said on Wednesday, as Moscow kept up the pressure on metropolitan centers far from the front lines.
The officials said that Ukraine’s air defenses had shot down all the drones aimed at Kyiv but that falling debris from the interceptions had caused damage. The State Emergency Service said that an administrative building had been hit, and the head
“American Graffiti” is celebrating its 50th anniversary.
Since the release of the film five decades ago, it has gone on to be considered an American cinema classic.
While the 1973 movie was made on a budget of less than $1 million, it earned $115 million at the box office worldwide and was nominated for five Academy Awards, including best picture. Many attribute the success of the movie to the nostalgia it provided to audiences, who yearned to live in a
