4 d. ago Coronation Street actress lands first big TV acting gig three years after quitting the cobbles

EX Coronation Street star Ellie Leach revealed her new role in The Good Ship Murder and admitted her character couldn’t be more different from anything she’s played before. Ellie bowed out of Corrie in 2023 after 12 years on the soap. Since leaving Weatherfield, Ellie’s star has only risen. Just months after quitting the ITV...

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4 d. ago 'Incomprehensible' Channel 5 crime drama returns tonight with soap star

The Good Ship Murder is back on Channel 5 tonight with former Coronation Street star Ellie Leach joining the series.

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5 d. ago Strictly's Ellie Leach teases first role since Coronation Street exit 'not like anything' she's done before

The Fate Windass actress has not acted in the past three years since leaving the ITV soap

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5 d. ago Corrie star confirms new 'challenging' TV role 3 years after exit

Former Coronation Street star Ellie Leach has landed her first on-screen acting role in hit Channel 5 drama

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5 d. ago Coronation Street Ellie Leach's 'totally different' role on The Good Ship Murder

Coronation Street's Ellie Leach is about to appear on screen in her first new role since quitting the part of Faye Windass on the ITV soap almost three years ago

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1 week ago The Zorg by Siddharth Kara review – scarcely imaginable horrors at sea

A vivid and chilling account of the deadly voyage that triggered the abolition of the Atlantic slave tradeOver the nearly four centuries during which the transatlantic slave trade operated, 12.5 million Africans were trafficked by Europeans to the Americas. 1.8 million of them perished on the voyage under scarcely imaginable conditions of overcrowding, filth and disease. Some threw themselves overboard. And others were thrown into the sea.In The Zorg, Siddharth Kara tells two stories. The first is of a harrowing incident aboard the eponymous slave ship – the murder of 132 Africans by the British crew. The second relates how that event came to play a role in the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade in 1807, in large part through the work of a dazzling array of committed campaigners. One of these was Olaudah Equiano, author of one of the few surviving accounts of the Middle Passage from the perspective of an enslaved person, in which he described it as “a scene of horror almost&...

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2 w. ago Was this the sketch that abolished slavery? Horrifying picture shows how British captain 'tortured girl, 15, to death on ship by whipping her upside down' before being cleared of murder

Captain John Kimber was accused of suspending the 15-year-old child by her ankle while whipping her on deck with a cat o' nine tails en route to Grenada in 1791, before she died five days later.

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2 w. ago The Good Ship Murder Christmas Special: When it's on, cast and plot

Here's what you need to know about the festive episode of Channel 5's The Good Ship Murder which sees the return of Shayne Ward and Catherine Tyldesley

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2 w. ago The Good Ship Murder Christmas Special start time, cast, plot and series 3 details

When is The Good Ship Murder Christmas Special as Shayne Ward and Catherine Tyldesley return for a festive episode to kick of series three of the Channel 5 drama? Here's everything you need to know.

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