Debbie McAllister: We Salute You

Last night another of Sun Hill’s finest left the station for good – though, unusually for the new Bill, Debbie McAllister walked out of her own accord, and not in a body bag. No more will she stride meaningfully through the day-glow corridors of the station, flirting with old-time Jack Meadows and picking girlish quarrels ala Moonlighting with pretty boy detective Phil Hunter. At least the flame-haired DS, for one final time squeezed into her trademark sub-Avengers-style leather top, told dull DI Manson what she thought of him, and flung herself at Meadows before she left. It’s been an eventful few years for Debbie – if she wasn’t getting raped by her serial-rapist, superintendent lover, she was dallying with lesbianism with short-term characters – and she will be missed. Just don’t let Phil follow her just yet…