The thing with shrews is this: no matter how piercing or shrill, they’re very clever. Shrews know, y’know. They know they’ve been given a raw deal and instead of hiding it, it’s vividly there, in...
Read MoreI’ve learnt many things in this life, one of them being this: if you get an email from your editor asking if you’d like to join Julie Goodyear for some Corrie-related gardening, you say yes. So, in the interests of popular...
Read More“I bet you didn’t know I made cheese.” This banner can be spotted at food markets up and down the country. From a distance, the casual observer may wonder what on earth it means. But get closer, take a look at the...
Read MoreIt is 55-years-old but shows no sign of slowing down. The TV institution that is Coronation Street produces five episodes each week, a far cry from its original remit of just one weekly show. A lot of hard graft goes on behind...
Read MoreI’ve been trying to work out why I was terribly moved by the death and subsequent tributes to Anne Kirkbride. I could only come up with this: I felt like I knew her. Of course I didn’t know her, never met. Apart from rare...
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