From army barracks and barges to Sherwood Forest
THE ANDREW NEIL SHOW
Asylum policy is back in the headlines as the government proposes to move migrants out of hotels and into army barracks and barges.
Does the policy stand up to scrutiny? Home Office Minister Tom Tugendhat joins the show. And with campaigning ahead of the crucial May local elections underway, can Labour make the headway they need? Shadow Justice Secretary Steve Reed is in the studio.
Join Andrew Neil and regular guests former Chancellor George Osborne and former Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls for The Andrew Neil Show.
Channel 4, 4.55pm
GRACE
As East Sussex police bid farewell to ACC Alison Vosper, the announcement of her replacement is not welcome news for Grace. Shaken by the recent sighting of Sandy, Roy attempts to get closer to the truth while trying to move forward with Cleo, as he is drawn into three sinister investigations.
In this final episode in the series a rising music star, Gaia Lafayette, receives the opportunity of a lifetime, and the same night that she excitedly announces to her devoted fans that she and her band are headed to LA, a shocking turn of events leads Grace and Branson to believe someone may be trying to harm her.
With a perpetrator on the loose, Roy must deduce who of Gaia’s fanbase may be concealing sinister intentions. Meanwhile, a grisly discovery on a remote Sussex pig farm puts Roy under serious pressure, forcing him to split his team in order to investigate two impossible lines of enquiry.
ITV/STV, 8pm
HIGHLAND COPS
It’s March 2022 and 32-year-old father, Finn Creaney, has been missing for 48 hours. A bushcraft expert, Finn went out with only a small amount of provision and the clothes on his back.
With little information about his planned route, the local officers unite with mountain rescue and a coastguard helicopter crew to trawl the area, leaving no stone unturned. With a blizzard on its way, and temperatures dropping the search for Finn becomes critical.
Also this week. while the Highlands can often seem like an empty landscape, it’s home to a huge variety of wildlife that can sometimes be targeted by criminals. Wildlife Crime Officer, PC Dan Sutherland is in charge of tackling wildlife crime right across the division, he says: “We have incredible wildlife in this country and it’s our job to protect them. The difficulty with wildlife crime is that animals don’t talk and there’s hardly ever any eye-witnesses”.
So when a car is pulled over containing two dead deer, it falls to Dan and his team to go to extraordinary lengths to investigate whether this man is an illegal poacher.
Meanwhile, in Thurso, a suspicious package, smelling strongly of cannabis, has been intercepted in the post and it falls to Sgt Andy McKay and his team to investigate. And, in Inverness, roads police respond to complaints of antisocial driving at a nearby shopping centre – a hotspot for an organised car cruise – a check on the system shows one of the culprits’ vehicles already has an ASBO but he’s not ready to surrender.
BBC Scotland Channel, 9pm (BBC Two nationwide tomorrow at 8pm)
COUTRYFILE
Margherita Taylor and Joe Crowley are in Sherwood Forest to unravel some hidden histories as they discover how much more there is to this nature reserve and site of special scientific interest than Robin Hood.
Margherita finds out the role Sherwood played as a training ground in the First World War and catches up with 94-year-old Kevin Topham, who shares the story of how the discovery of black gold in the forest helped to shape victory during WWII.
Joe discovers why Sherwood has a missing generation of oaks and how premature ageing is helping to fill the gap. We meet 17-year-old ornithologist Indy Greene, who is on the trail of the forest’s woodpeckers, including the rarest and most secretive: the lesser spotted. And we find out why the new deal for Northern Ireland hasn’t included veterinary medicine, with potentially devastating consequences for animal and human health.
BBC One, 6pm
