Coronation street News
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Preston -
William Roache has been cleared at Preston Crown Court of all charges. This was the latest in a series of high profile trials.
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There is a place where the women are blonde and free with their favours. Sadly, this wonderful land exists only in the tiny minds of scriptwriters.
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Isleworth -
The word heartbroken can mean many things to different people. Sometimes it may be something entirely frivolous, other times not so.
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Yet another non-accidental death in one of the UK's leading soaps, and not for the first time the murder weapon is wielded by a woman.
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The plots of Britain's leading soaps grow more extreme and at times more bizarre in the endless scramble for ratings. More murders are on the way.
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After the demise of the village serial killer there is more death on the way for the denizens of Emmerdale. This time there are no suspicious circumstances, but elsewhere?
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Some of the plots in the UK's leading soaps beggar belief, but the off-screen trials and tribulations of their casts are stranger than fiction.
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This week sees two killers unmasked in two of the UK's leading soaps, but the biggest drama happened in the real world when Michael Le Vell was cleared of rape.
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Manchester -
The rape trial of the soap actor Michael Le Vell is the latest in a long line of child sexual abuse prosecutions that should never have happened.
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Ever get that feeling you've seen it all before? That could be because you have, including the body in the woods and the not so private lesbian kiss.
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Britain's leading soap operas have some extraordinary plots, so when the same plot appears in another years later, can this really be mere coincidence?
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Heard the one about the punter who put £500 on a four horse accumulator and cleaned out the bookie? That could never happen for real, could it?
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Liverpool -
Andrew Lancel once played a rapist in a TV soap opera. Yesterday at Liverpool Crown Court he was himself cleared of historic sexual offences.
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Serial killers are generally men of above average intelligence and often loners. In the real world, but not in soap fantasy land.
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Wilmslow -
Coronation Street actor Bill Roache, 81, who has played the part of Ken Barlow since the first episode of the show was screened in 1960, has been arrested over claims he raped a 15-year-old girl in 1967.
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The plots of two of Britain's leading soaps are looking remarkably familiar, not for the first time, but it is off-screen in New Zealand where the real drama is to be found.
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A 'sideways' review of the latest goings-on in Coronation Street, the popular British Soap Opera.
This post looks at episodes broadcast in the UK 21st-25th January 2013
*Warning: May Contain Spoilers*
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A 'sideways' review of the latest goings-on in Coronation Street, the popular British Soap Opera.
This post looks at episodes broadcast in the UK 14th-18th January 2013
*Warning: May Contain Spoilers*
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A 'sideways' review of the latest goings-on in Coronation Street, the popular British Soap Opera.
This post looks at episodes broadcast in the UK 7th-11th January 2013
*Warning: May Contain Spoilers*
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Somebody is not having a happy new year, but murder, adultery, and brotherly hate are good for the ratings, as long as people don't forget it's only fantasy.
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How many murders can there be in a village that consists of a public house, a shop, a church, and a cow or two? That will probably depend how much the locals love their cows, including those that walk on two legs and frequently lie on their backs.
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A 'sideways' review of the latest goings-on in Coronation Street, the popular British Soap Opera.
This post looks at episodes broadcast in the UK 10th-14th December 2012.
*Warning: May Contain Spoilers*
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A 'sideways' review of the latest goings-on in Coronation Street, the popular British Soap Opera.
This post looks at episodes broadcast in the UK 26th-30th November 2012.
*Warning: May Contain Spoilers*
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A 'sideways' review of the latest goings-on in Coronation Street, the popular British Soap Opera.
This post looks at episodes broadcast in the UK 26th-30th November 2012.
*Warning: May Contain Spoilers*
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Liverpool -
Earlier this year, Andrew Lancel played a rapist in the UK soap 'Coronation Street'. Yesterday he was charged with five counts of indecent assault on a child.
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A 'sideways' review of the latest goings-on in Coronation Street, the popular British Soap Opera.
This post looks at episodes broadcast in the UK 19th - 23rd November 2012.
*Warning: May Contain Spoilers*
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A 'sideways' review of the latest goings-on in Coronation Street, the popular British Soap Opera.
This post looks at episodes broadcast in the UK 12th - 16th November 2012.
*Warning: May Contain Spoilers*
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A 'sideways' review of the latest goings-on in Coronation Street, the popular British Soap Opera.
This post looks at episodes broadcast in the UK 5th - 9th November 2012.
*Warning: May Contain Spoilers*
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Bill Tarmey, the actor who for more than 30 years played Jack Duckworth in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street, has died, it has been announced.
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A 'sideways' review of the latest goings-on in Coronation Street, the popular British Soap Opera.
This post looks at episodes broadcast in the UK 29th October - 2nd November 2012.
*Warning: May Contain Spoilers*
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Coronation Street: Rosie and Jeff
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Promotional photograph
Villain Terry Duckworth wrestles with Tina, with nearly fatal consequences.
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An image released by ITV for promotional purposes (spoiler)
Freed on bail while she appeals her murder conviction, Fiz can take no more of Sally's Webster's jibes.
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When an unwitting eyewitness to arson comes clean, the man who set the fire - layabout and double murderer Karl - is for the high jump.
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ITV hand out
No, this guy is not a paedophile grooming his next victim, but a man who may well become a reluctant serial killer trying to convince a nescient witness to keep his mouth shut.
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Youtube screen capture
Eileen Derbyshire and Barbara Knox of the hit show Coronation Street
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A promotional photo released by Granada TV
The line up of suspects as rapist Frank Foster becomes the fourth person and the second murder victim to be carried out of Carla's knicker factory in a body bag.
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Coronation Street's Granada studios in Manchester, England.
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A screengrab from a forthcoming episode.
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Part of the Coronation Street
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The Rovers Return Inn in Coronation Street, a British soap opera
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Only in a soap opera could a punter win 35 grand with a four horse accumulator on a stewards' inquiry in the last race.
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Publicity photograph
Glenn Berry (left) and Scott Neal in Beautiful Thing
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TV promo photo release
Having been evicted from the public house by his manageress wife, Karl returns humiliated, but will she take him back after he blew all their savings? Not if she finds out he's been romping in the hay with the wife of the local corner shop owner in the meantime.
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