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Keeley Hawes joins BBC Two’s Line Of Duty
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Former Spooks, Identity and Upstairs Downstairs star Keeley Hawes is joining BBC Two’s police corruption drama, Line Of Duty. Hawes will play Detective Inspector Lindsay Denton, the sole surviving police officer of an ambushed police convoy in which three colleagues are killed and a protected witness seriously injured. Deputy Chief Constable Mike Dryden (Robert Lindsay)…
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Ofcom to make 0800 free on all mobile and fixed line deals
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Telecoms regulator Ofcom is consulting on new rules which will ensure phone users always know the cost of calling numbers starting 08, 09 and 118. It has also announced plans to ensure calls to freephone (0800) numbers are always free, even on mobiles. The regulator says non-BT customers cannot always “easily tell how much they…
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Midsomer Murders – ITV announces Barnaby’s new sidekick
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Gwilym Lee is to joining Midsomer Murders as the new sidekick to DCI John Barnaby (Neil Dudgeon). The actor replaces Jason Hughes who played DS Jones in more than 50 episodes opposite both original series star John Nettles and successor Dudgeon. Lee will play DS Charlie Nelson in the new five-part series which starts filming…
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Infographic – Audi in the movies
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From the car chases in Taken to the heavy catch in Iron Man, here are just a few of the most notable Audi cars in the movies.
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New James Bond novel title revealed
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Author William Boyd has used the first day of the London Book Fair to announce the title of his forthcoming James Bond novel. Set in 1969, Solo departs from the reboot approach of Jeffery Deaver’s Carte Blanche for a return to the classic Fleming depiction of the character. Boyd says the book will see Bond…
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James Bond: The phones of 007
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Longevity means that for most of his career, 007 lacked access to that most basic staple of everyday life – the mobile phone.