Inside knowledge: confessions of a female prison officer

Private investigators Emma Coles and Sam Hutchinson on surveillance, secret cameras, solving cases – and still being home in time for the school run

Issy Vine, a former 999 call handler, is suing the Met after claiming they reinstated her colleague who made sexist slurs

There is a scene in the musical Made in Dagenham where a line of chorus girls in silver mini-dresses dances for the glamorous launch of the Ford Cortina Mark Two (helpfully singing, ‘It’s like a Mark

Making the tea, wearing stockings and suspenders... after 30 years in the Met police, Kathryn West* has written a book revealing what it’s really like to be a woman on the Force and how she’s seen attitudes change over three decades...

Watch out – it’s women on the case in the cool new crop of TV detective dramas

Becoming an adult It’s three decades since Pulp’s ...