If you were watching last week's episode of Happy Valley, you'll have seen the hilarious scene where, winding up a junior officer, a straight-faced Sgt Catherine Cawood asks her fellow bobbies for applicants for the role of 'alien liaison officer'.
Later Catherine, played by Oldham's Sarah Lancashire, explains to a colleague how the prank came about. "Gorkem saw a strange light moving in an erratic manner over Erringden Moor at 5am yesterday morning so he started googling stuff and found out about that bobby in Todmorden in 1980," she said. "He thinks he’s been abducted by aliens."
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