“EVERYBODY has their own shadow. The shadow within.

“I find all of that really interesting. Maybe it explains why we all like to read or watch dark stories.

“Sometimes people want to look at monsters and hold the darkness up in the light.

“Then put it away safely.”

Laura Fraser talking to me about new six part drama The Loch, which begins on ITV at 9pm this Sunday (June 11).

SCHOOL’S out for Waterloo Road in Rochdale.

Production of the drama is to move to Scotland, although how that will be explained on screen is still not clear.

My English exclusive story on the end of an era for the BBC1 show is in today’s MEN here.

With a fuller version below: