Thank the stars for Tv the one force that still has the power to bring the nation together.
On Sunday night, as the BBC1 police thriller Line Of Duty finally revealed the bent copper at the heart of its web of corruption, up to 13 million Brits were glued to their sets . . . at the same moment.
Whatever you thought of that finale and many applauded it as subtly ingenious, while others denounced it loudly as a letdown it achieved its purpose. We re all still talking about it.
There s a magical sense of community in knowing that millions of us are watching together. Every gasp of surprise and grunt of puzzlement is echoed across the land.
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Parisian crime story continues to expose the sordid workings of the French justice system
by Adam SweetingSunday, 11 January 2015
Death on the Seine: Captain Laure Berthaud (Caroline Proust) and Gilou (Thierry Godard) search for clues
It s a poignant moment for the return of this superior French police drama. With the Paris terrorist crisis the top story across all media, we rejoin our fictional police captain Laure Berthaud to find her still in emotional fragments following the death of her lover Sami in a terrorist bomb blast at the end of series four.
Heaven and Hell with journalist Tessa Allingham ipswichstar.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ipswichstar.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Freelance journalist Tessa Allingham
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Tessa Allingham is an acclaimed freelance journalist, who over the last 20 years, has written about the world of hospitality for EADT Suffolk Magazine, Waitrose Weekend, The Caterer and more.
She has also written and published books about the chefs and food of East Anglia.
She lives just outside Bury St Edmunds, and feels lucky to have a lovely home and garden and, above all, family.
And today happens to be her birthday! Here she talks to Gina Long
What’s the impact of Covid-19 and how are you adapting?
My husband’s birth-mother moved in on that fateful mid-March weekend after suffering a stroke.