Brenda Blethyn, who has played DCI Vera Stanhope in the ITV drama since 2011, was forced to seek urgent medical attention.

Vera star Brenda Blethyn has revealed why she decided to quit the hit British crime drama after nearly 15 years on air. First airing in 2011, the ITV series is based on the Vera Stanhope series of ...

Having won a BAFTA and been nominated for an Oscar for her performance in Mike Leigh's Secrets & Lies in the mid-90s, Brenda ...

Ann Cleeves lost her laptop during heavy snowstorms on Shetland Crime writer Ann Cleeves has said the laptop she lost during a heavy snowstorm in Shetland has been found. It contained the draft of ...

In Cleeves’s exquisitely plotted sixth Shetland mystery (after 2013’s Dead Water), bridesmaid Eleanor Longstaff disappears during a wedding ceremony on the island. When she turns up dead in a ...

“It was also important to keep the sense of place that Ann created in the books. I added the idea that the story and it's conclusion would be set during the run-up to the 'Up Helly Aa' festival ...

The cast and crew of ITV's Vera headed to a quiet Northumberland village to shoot scenes for the last ever episode ...