Martin’s up for laughter Lines of Duty
BY KIRSTEN McSTAY POPULAR BBC drama Line of Duty will return for a one-off Sport Relief special next month.
Gary Lineker and Paddy McGuinness will host the live show which will feature a stellar line-up.
Greenock-born actor Martin Compston, who plays DC Steve Arnott, will return for the sketch along with fellow cast members Vicky McClure and Adrian Dunbar.
All three will be seen interrogating DC Taylor, an accused corrupt copper (played by Jason Isaacs) who they suspect knows the identity of the real “H”.
Unfortunately for Taylor, he is represented by useless lawyer David Rickman played by Lee Mack.
Sport Relief will take place on Friday, March 13, on BBC1 from 7pm.
TORY policing minister Kit Malthouse slammed the door on a lifesaving drug consumption room in Scotland before a single voice was raised at the UK’s drugs summit yesterday.
Malthouse said he was open to considering all new ideas and admitted radical approaches are needed – but wrote off as “a distraction” the safe drug room proposal for Glasgow that has caused a major row between Holyrood and Westminster.
The summit also heard scathing criticism from Dame Professor Carol Black, who described a “perfect storm” driving drug deaths, caused by massive supply that makes buying drugs “as easy as getting a pizza”.
Lower priority policing and reductions in funding for treatment and recovery programmes for addicts were also pinpointed at the heart of the current crisis.
Dame Carol’s report, based on England and Wales data, lays down how drugs cost society £19billion a year and bring in £9.4billion for criminal gangs, while only £600million is spent on treatment and prevention.
It also highlights the disturbing upward trend of young adults and schoolchildren to take drugs.