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Maud Grimes
The following is a list of characters that first appeared in the ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street'' in 1993, by order of first appearance. Maureen Holdsworth Maureen Webster (also Grimes, Naylor, Holdsworth and Elliott) was played by Sherrie Hewson. Maureen Naylor was first seen in March 1993 when she was employed by Curly Watts at Bettabuys supermarket, unaware that her first love Reg Holdsworth was the store manager. The pair had been engaged to be married when they were young, but Maureen's mother Maud disapproved of Reg and had ruined the relationship. Maureen went on to marry Frank Naylor but eventually divorced him after he treated her badly. Delighted to be reunited, Maureen and Reg began courting, although Maureen's cautious behaviour led Reg to suspect she was seeing another man. Maureen eventually confessed that she was actually living with her mother and did not want her to frighten Reg away as she had done years before. Despite Maud's best efforts to sabotag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ITV (TV Network)
ITV, legally known as Channel 3, is a British free-to-air public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom, public broadcast television network. It is branded as ITV1 in most of the UK except for central and northern Scotland, where it is branded as STV (TV channel), STV. It was launched in 1955 as Independent Television to provide competition to BBC Television (established in 1936). ITV is the oldest commercial network in the UK. Since the passing of the Broadcasting Act 1990, it has been Legal name, legally known as Channel 3 to distinguish it from the other analogue channels at the time: BBC1, BBC2 and Channel 4. ITV was, for decades, a network of separate companies that provided regional television services and also shared programmes among themselves to be shown on the entire network. Each franchise was originally owned by a different company. After several mergers, the fifteen regional franchises are now held by two companies: ITV plc, which runs ITV1, the ITV1 cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carmel Finnan
The following is a list of characters that first appeared in the ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street'' in 1992, by order of first appearance. Lisa Duckworth Lisa Horton (formerly Duckworth) was played by Caroline Milmoe. Lisa is introduced as the pregnant ex-girlfriend of Terry Duckworth ( Nigel Pivaro), who returns to Weatherfield after a four-year absence in 1992. Upon her arrival, Terry is arrested and returned to prison to face charges of GBH and he and Lisa later get married after he is granted day release. However, Terry only intends to use the wedding as a plot to escape, and he flees the church after the ceremony. In September, Lisa gives birth to a son, whom she names Tommy. Lisa struggles as a single mother. After coming to the conclusion that Terry was never going to be a suitable father to Tommy and that she never loved Terry, Lisa sets her sights on bookie Des Barnes ( Philip Middlemiss). Lisa and Des fall in love and intended to move away together, but in Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trinidad
Trinidad is the larger, more populous island of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, the country. The island lies off the northeastern coast of Venezuela and sits on the continental shelf of South America. It is the southernmost island in the Caribbean. With an area of , it is also the fifth-largest in the Caribbean. Name The original name for the island in the Arawakan languages was which meant "Land of the Hummingbird". Christopher Columbus renamed it ('The Island of the Trinity'), fulfilling a vow he had made before setting out on his third voyage. This has since been shortened to ''Trinidad''. Indo-Trinidadians called the island चीनीदत्त , 𑂒𑂲𑂢𑂲𑂠𑂞𑂹𑂞 , , ''Chinidat'' or ''Chinidad'' in Trinidadian Hindustani which translated to the land of sugar. The usage of the term goes back to the 19th century when recruiters from India would call the island ''Chinidat'' as a way of luring workers into indentureship. On Tuesday, 31 Jul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheffield University
The University of Sheffield (informally Sheffield University or TUOS) is a public research university in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. Its history traces back to the foundation of Sheffield Medical School in 1828, Firth College in 1879 and Sheffield Technical School in 1884. The University College of Sheffield was subsequently formed by the amalgamation of the three institutions in 1897 and was granted a royal charter as the University of Sheffield in 1905 by King Edward VII. Sheffield is formed from 50 academic departments which are organised into five faculties and an international faculty. The annual income of the institution for 2023–24 was £887.9 million, of which £185.8 million was from research grants and contracts, with an expenditure of £651.4 million. Sheffield is regarded as one of the top engineering universities in Europe. As of the latest HESA statistics, it had the highest engineering research income and expenditure among all the univ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Easter
Easter, also called Pascha ( Aramaic: פַּסְחָא , ''paskha''; Greek: πάσχα, ''páskha'') or Resurrection Sunday, is a Christian festival and cultural holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in the New Testament as having occurred on the third day of his burial following his crucifixion by the Romans at Calvary . It is the culmination of the Passion of Jesus, preceded by Lent (or Great Lent), a 40-day period of fasting, prayer, and penance. Easter-observing Christians commonly refer to the last week of Lent, before Easter, as Holy Week, which in Western Christianity begins on Palm Sunday (marking the entrance of Jesus in Jerusalem), includes Spy Wednesday (on which the betrayal of Jesus is mourned), and contains the days of the Easter Triduum including Maundy Thursday, commemorating the Maundy and Last Supper, as well as Good Friday, commemorating the crucifixion and death of Jesus. In Eastern Christianity, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Cochrane
Nicholas Marc Cochrane is an English actor, known for his role as Andy McDonald in the ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street''. Career Cochrane had appeared as an extra on TV for ''Coronation Streets production company, Granada TV, prior to his successful audition in 1989 for the role of Andy McDonald. Cochrane's character stayed in the programme for seven years before he was axed, along with several other cast members, in a high-profile cull by a new producer in 1997. His character took a job as an English teacher in Spain, but has since returned for two short spells so that Andy McDonald could be seen attending the remarriage of his parents and later being best man at his brother's wedding to Becky Granger. In 2004, Cochrane co-launched a short-lived magazine about soap operas named ''Into Soap'' under the newly formed company Treble Media Ltd. However, due to fierce competition from other publications such as '' Inside Soap'' and '' Soaplife'', the magazine ran into financi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy McDonald (Coronation Street)
The following is a list of characters that first appeared in the ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street'' in 1989, by order of first appearance. Dawn Prescott Dawn Prescott, portrayed by Louise Harrison, was a shop assistant at ''Weatherfield Security Systems'' when Alan Bradley first opened the shop. She worked alongside him and Martin Platt and her duties were to manage the shop whilst Alan and Martin were on call-outs. Dawn found herself in a messy situation when she realised that Alan got the money to set up the shop from a mortgage he had taken out of No. 7 Coronation Street in the name of Rita's dead ex-husband Len Fairclough and had the letters addressed to the shop so she wouldn't find out. Alan subsequently attempted to rape Dawn, but she luckily elbowed him and ran off. He denied any allegations made against him and made it clear it was his word against hers. Alan was subsequently charged for defrauding Rita with the mortgage money. After leaving the security busine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Digital Spy
Digital Spy (DS) is a British-based entertainment, television and film website and brand and is the largest digital property at Hearst UK. Since its initial launch in 1999, Digital Spy has focused on entertainment news related to television programmes, films, music and show business to a global audience. As well as breaking news, in-depth features, reviews and editorial explainers, the site also features the DS Internet forum, Forum. History (1999) In early January 1999, Iain Chapman launched the website, providing news, rumours and information on Sky's new digital satellite platform Sky (UK and Ireland), SkyDigital. At the same time, Chris Butcher launched the ONfaq website, offering similar news and information on the UK's new digital terrestrial platform ITV Digital, ONdigital. Both sites proved to be popular, attracting many visitors eager for more news about these rapidly developing TV platforms. Chapman and Butcher discussed the idea of a merger of the two sites, to cre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise Duprey
Louise Duprey (26 April 1957 – February 2000) was a British character actress, best known for her 1993 stint as supermarket worker Amy Nelson in ITV1's soap opera, ''Coronation Street''. Duprey had been set for a long run in ''Coronation Street'' with her character being due to marry on-screen love interest, Andy McDonald. However, in late 1993, just as the wedding scenes were about to be recorded, Duprey suffered a breakdown and was sent home on leave. After it became apparent that she would not be well enough to return to the programme, a storywriters' conference was quickly convened and scripts redrafted. In the programme, viewers saw the engagement between the characters of Andy McDonald and Amy Nelson being hurriedly 'broken off' with another actress, Melanie Brown, being used in the final scenes to play the part of Nelson. Duprey had previously appeared in an episode of ''Bread''. She also appeared as two different characters, in two episodes of ''One Foot in the Grave'' on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mel B
Melanie Janine Brown, Order of the British Empire, MBE (born 29 May 1975), commonly known as Mel B or Melanie B, is an English singer, songwriter, television personality, and actress. She rose to fame in the mid 1990s as a member of the Pop music, pop group the Spice Girls, in which she was nicknamed Scary Spice. With over 100 million records sold worldwide, the Spice Girls are the List of best-selling girl groups, best-selling female group of all time. The group went on an indefinite hiatus in 2000, before reuniting for Greatest Hits (Spice Girls album), a greatest hits album (2007) and two concert tours: the Return of the Spice Girls (2007–2008) and Spice World – 2019 Tour, Spice World (2019). Mel B debuted as a solo artist in 1998 with the release of "I Want You Back (Mel B song), I Want You Back" which peaked atop the UK Singles Chart. Her debut solo studio album, ''Hot (Mel B album), Hot'' (2000), produced the successful singles "Tell Me (Mel B song), Tell Me" and "Fee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Worth
Helen Worth (born Cathryn Helen Wigglesworth; 7 January 1951) is a British actress. She is best known for portraying the role of Gail Platt in the ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street'' for 50 years from 1974 to 2024. In 2014, she received the British Soap Award for Outstanding Achievement. Worth was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2022 Birthday Honours for services to drama. Early life Worth was born to Alfred and Gladys Wigglesworth in Ossett and grew up in Morecambe, Lancashire. She was brought up in a middle-class family and attended private school. Her mother was killed in a hit-and-run road accident in 1971. Career After graduating from drama school, Worth worked in repertory theatre, which included a year with the BBC Radio repertory company. It was during her stage debut as Brigitta in ''The Sound of Music'' that she shortened her name following concerns from the show's leading stars that her birth name would be too prominent on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gail Platt
Gail Platt (also Potter, Tilsley, Hillman, McIntyre, Rodwell and Chadwick) is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street'', played by Helen Worth. The character first appeared on-screen on 29 July 1974. Gail is the daughter of Audrey Roberts (Sue Nicholls) and Ted Page ( Michael Byrne) and is the mother of Nick Tilsley ( Ben Price), Sarah Platt ( Tina O'Brien) and David Platt ( Jack P. Shepherd) and has featured in some of the most controversial and high-profile storylines in the soap involving her family and her number of relationships — she is the soap's most married female character, having been married seven times (equal to Steve McDonald (Simon Gregson)). In June 2024, it was announced that Worth had decided to leave Coronation Street after 50 years. She made her on-screen departure from the soap in December of that year. Gail's storylines include her marriage to Brian Tilsley ( Christopher Quinten); her vicious feud with her mother ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
