Coronation Street Monthly Update June 2013
SYLVIA GETS a call from an old friend in a care home, called Dorothy. That’s the friend, not the care home. Dorothy moves rooms in the care home and finds an unopened letter addressed to Sylvia from December 2011. The letter’s from Roy’s dad, St John – which I think is pronounced Sinjun, like Injun. [...]
Coronation Street Monthly Update April 2013
GAIL’S NOT best pleased this month when she’s told by son Nick that he could be the father to his brother’s wife’s baby. But then, again, so could Nick’s brother, and Gail’s younger son, David. Gail purses her lips, tuts and harangues David’s wife, poor Kylie when she returns from hospital with a ruptured spleen [...]
Coronation Street Monthly Update March 2013
LEWIS’ WORK is almost done, winding up Gail about a dream life in Italy so she takes out a loan on her house “No really, you shouldn’t have, I implore you, my angel”, coos Lewis, twirling Gail round his little finger. She’s putty in his hands, even learning Italian for Lovers from a cheap DVD. [...]
Coronation Street Monthly Update February 2013
WEDDINGS IN soap land never room smoothly and this month there are two, both with the same Corrie couple involved. En route to meet groom Nick for wedding number one, bride Leanne calls at Peter’s house to offer herself to him, just for old times sake. Peter is tempted, oh yes he is tempted, but [...]
Coronation Street Monthly Update January 2013
JUST WHEN you think crazy Kirsty can’t get any worse, she only goes and does. First off, poor Fiz gets her sewing machine tangled when it stops working at Underworld. Julie turns the machine off at the mains as Fiz tries to sort the machine out and just as she’s doing that, Kirsty turns the [...]
Coronation Street Monthly Update December 2012
THERE’S NO fool like an old fool, as Audrey knows well, and she’s not about to be taken in by Lewis again. So when Lewis goes missing and a mystery woman turns up saying Lewis owes her a few thousand pounds, Audrey’s all a flutter. Has Lewis pulled the wool over her eyes again? Like [...]
Coronation Street Monthly Update November 2012
LAST MONTH, all Lloyd had in the world was a job with Streetcars, a best friend called Steve and a belting collection of Northern Soul tunes. This month he’s got a job with Streetcars, a best mate called Steve, a belting collection of Northern Soul tunes and a daughter called Jenna. He finds out about [...]
Coronation Street Actor Bill Tarmey Dies
ACTOR Bill Tarmey, 71, who for 30 years played loveable rogue Jack Duckworth on British soap opera “Coronation Street,” has died. The show’s producers say Tarmey died in Tenerife. He had been in poor health for several years. Jack and his tart-tongued wife Vera, played by Liz Dawn, were among the longest-running characters on [...]
Coronation Street Monthly Update October 2012
SCARY MARY finally comes clean and admits to Hayley that she’s been after Roy Cropper for quite some time. And Roy, as we all know, only has eyes for Hayley. Mary admits all after she lures Roy away overnight to an Elgar concert and invites Roy to bunker down in her motorhome with her. Roy, [...]
Coronation Street Monthly Update September 2012
THIS MONTH in Corrie, Rob takes on Eva as the new knicker stitcher at the factory but she’s all fingers and thumbs. Fortunately for Eva, they’re not the body parts Rob’s interested in and she carries on stitching, much to his delight. It’s fair to say, however, that the factory girls are less impressed with [...]
