Ruth Jones has explained why she had to learn her way around a gun for her new TV role.

While it sounds like a tale of a past life her Gavin & Stacey character Nessa might tell, Ruth will play an ex-police firearms officer in new drama Run Away.

“We had proper serious training for it, it was all taken very seriously – as it should be, you know,” she told RadioTimes.

“I’d be lying if I said that it didn’t make me feel like a little bit kind of powerful onscreen.”

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