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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Fans of the hit ITV drama have been given a big clue as to when they'll be back to watch the final series, thanks to a very ...

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 ...