Maxine Peake wins planning battle to convert rural farmhouse into rehearsal space for actors

TELLY star Maxine Peake has won a planning row to convert a farmhouse into rehearsal space for actors.  The Shameless actress, 51, wanted an area for her acting company to work in, as well as a ceramics workshop.  Plans for the Grade II-listed site aimed “to help support in a small way the country’s leading role...