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The young actors – particularly Gurjeet Singh, Amy-Leigh Hickman, Poppy Lee Friar, and Maariah Hussain (as Alya Nawaz, a brilliantly spiteful piece of work) were superb. They, and some nice ...

It wasn’t the hymn to diversity the school governors of Ackley Bridge (Channel 4) wanted but student Alya Nawaz’s (Maariah Hussain) determination to mortify her cheating school-sponsor ...

Walking through bright corridors now, it's impossible to imagine. "It's really funny," Maariah Hussain (Alya Nawaz) says, "because sometimes I come here, and then I go to school and there's no ...

Maariah Hussain, 17, and Sam Bottomley, 15, both attend the Bradford-based Yorkshire School of Acting, but met for the first time on the set of the Channel 4 drama. Ackley Bridge is set in a ...