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 has admitted that she rarely plans how she wants the plot to unfold when she is writing her Vera books and ...

“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 ...

Crime writer Ann Cleeves and TV presenter and farmer Matt Baker are among those being awarded in the Queen's New Year Honours list. Ms Cleeves, creator of detective series such as Vera Stanhope ...

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 ...