ITV's The Bill has come in for a good riot-style kicking over the decision to create more personal storylines, allegedly at the expense of plots concentrating on the nitty-gritty of policing. You're turning into a soap, yell the critics from their armchairs, as they see slender young CID lovelies perched where portly old "Tosh" Lines once slumped, and PCs leaping into bed together in the glow of scented candles.

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