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Blue Lights (BBC1)
Cops eat doughnuts. Coppers eat cake. That's the distinction between US and UK police — same ethos, different recipes, that's all.
On the streets of Belfast, as the crime drama Blue Lights returned, PCs Stevie and Grace (Martin McCann and Sian Brooke) were bonding over a bake during a quiet moment on patrol.
She unclipped her Tupperware box suggestively and urged him to try a slice of 'fifteen'.
The Beeb has a grand wee tradition of policemen from Northern Ireland — Adrian Dunbar as Line Of Duty's Supt Hastings, James Nesbitt's morally ambiguous DCI Brannick in Bloodlands, all the way back to James Ellis as PC Bert Lynch in Z Cars.
But none of them, as far as I can recall, ever tucked into a wedge of fifteen on screen.
They must have eaten it when they were growing up — it's a favourite of Ulster schoolchildren.
On the streets of Belfast , as the crime drama Blue Lights returned, PCs Stevie and Grace (Martin McCann and Sian Brooke, pictured) were bonding over a bake during a quiet moment on patrol
The Beeb has a grand wee tradition of policemen from Northern Ireland — Adrian Dunbar as Line Of Duty 's Supt Hastings, James Nesbitt 's morally ambiguous DCI Brannick in Bloodlands. Pictured: Nathan Braniff and Katherine Devlin in Blue Lights
Come to that, I'd love to see it served up on Bake Off, just to witness Paul and Prue's reactions. There's no actual baking involved, you see.
Take 15 crushed digestive biscuits, 15 chopped marshmallows and 15 sliced
