Crime-busters going back on Duty
NEW SERIES: Cast of cop show
LINE Of Duty is set to be back on TV in just three weeks.
Show bosses have announced the new series will start on BBC One on March 21.
It is due to be the longest run yet with seven episodes.
Fans were given a taste of what is to come as a trailer was aired yesterday.
The plot will focus on an unsolved murder case.
Show regulars Vicky McClure, Adrian Dunbar and Martin
Compston are all returning to the show as police serving in an anti-corruption division.
Kelly Macdonald and Shalom Brune-Franklin are also joining the cast.
Line Of Duty has become one of TV’s biggest shows since launching in 2012.
The fifth series, which aired in 2017, pulled in more than 12million viewers.
A MAN who survived being blasted with a shotgun on his doorstep said the attack is slowly killing him 14 years on.
In 2007, dad-of-two Joe Clarke was fired in the back with around 150 pellets.
Shot embedded in his back, neck and head, and penetrated vital organs. Medics said removing the shrapnel, including two pieces wedged in his heart, was too dangerous.
The 43-year-old, from Consett, Newcastle, was told the shooting could shorten his life. He said: “It’s just a constant struggle.
“Sometimes I wish I hadn’t survived. They took the life I had.”
SAS: Who Dares Wins hardman Ollie Ollerton went to boozy parties in Baghdad villas that once belonged to tyrant Saddam Hussein.
Ollie, who said strippers would turn up in burkas, also made money by hiring out the despot’s luxury cars.
The 49-year-old took up security work in war-torn
Iraq after his time as an elite soldier and before he went into television.
He revealed: “I’m there years later after doing special forces and all of a sudden I’m in Saddam Hussein’s villas. We bought all his cars. We used to hire them out in to Baghdad.
“It was like Hertz car rental but an armoured Mercedes that used to be Saddam’s.
“And then going to parties, which was just mental.
“Every Thursday night was party night, there were these parties kicking off all over Baghdad.” Ollie told podcaster James English that the bashes were like “the Wild West”.
He said: “All of a sudden women in burkas come in.
“And they took off these burkas and they just had all European porn gear on and it was just alcohol, drugs and everything. I was like, ‘What’s going on?’”