* Julie Hesmondhalgh, actor, Hayley Cropper in the TV Soap Coronation Street

* Vicky Entwistle, actor, Janice Battersby in the TV Soap Coronation Street

He is best known for playing Dave Lister in the British science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf, and Lloyd Mullaney in the long-running soap opera Coronation Street.

As well as starring in Coronation Street and occasional Red Dwarf series, Charles continues to host his Funk and Soul Show on BBC radio, and performs DJ sets at numerous clubs and festivals nationally.

During Back to Earth, Charles ' character, Lister, visits the set of Coronation Street where he meets the actor Craig Charles.

In 2005, Charles joined the principal cast of Coronation Street, the world's longest-running TV soap opera, playing philandering taxicab driver, Lloyd Mullaney.

In November 2011, Charles took time off from Coronation Street to film a new series of Red Dwarf, returning to filming on ' Corrie ' in April 2012.

In June 2006, newspaper allegations of crack cocaine use resulted in Charles being suspended from both Coronation Street and BBC Radio 6 Music.

Charles returned to hosting his 6 Music show from November 2006 and to filming Coronation Street from January 2007.

* Charles Lawson ( 1959 – ), actor ( plays Jim McDonald in Coronation Street )

Coronation Street is a British television soap opera set in Weatherfield, a fictional town in Greater Manchester based on Salford.

Created by Tony Warren, Coronation Street was first broadcast on 9 December 1960.

Ken Barlow ( Coronation Street ) | Ken Barlow in the first episode of Coronation Street.

The character was one of the few to have experienced life ' outside ' of Coronation Street, and in some ways predicts the growth of globalisation and the decline of similar communities.

" Roache was the only remaining member of the original cast until Dennis Tanner ( Philip Lowrie ) returned on 12 May 2011, and is currently the longest-serving actor in Coronation Street and in British and global soap overall.

In March 1961, Coronation Street reached No. 1 in the television ratings and remained there for the rest of the year.

In spite of rising popularity with viewers, Coronation Street was criticised by some for its outdated portrayal of the urban working-class, and its representation of a community that was a nostalgic fantasy.

For eleven weeks, between August and October 1979, industrial action forced Coronation Street and the whole of the ITV network ( apart from the Channel Islands ) off the air.

When ITV did return, its first evening schedule included a special " catch-up " edition of Coronation Street, in which storylines which would have taken place during the strike were explained away in the form of a narrative chat between Len Fairclough and Bet Lynch.

Coronation Street returned to ITV screens at a regular time late in 1979.

Coronation Street had little competition within its prime time slot, and certain critics suggested that the programme had grown complacent, moving away from socially viable storylines and again presenting a dated view of working-class life.

The episode where Alan met his death under the tram gave Coronation Street its highest ever viewing figures of 26. 9 million, and is still the 9th most watched UK broadcast of all time.

It is the hundreds of programmes that have followed which have copied Coronation Street.

* 1960 – The first episode of the world's longest-running television soap opera Coronation Street is broadcast in the United Kingdom.

Some of the symbolism within the coronation ceremony for British monarchs, in which they are anointed with holy oils by the Archbishop of Canterbury, thereby ordaining them to monarchy, perpetuates the ancient Roman Catholic monarchical ideas and ceremonial ( although few Protestants realize this, the ceremony is nearly entirely based upon that of the Coronation of the Holy Roman Emperor ).

Baldung's most sustained effort is the altarpiece of Freiburg, where the Coronation of the Virgin, and the Twelve Apostles, the Annunciation, Visitation, Nativity and Flight into Egypt, and the Crucifixion, with portraits of donors, are executed with some of that fanciful power that Martin Schongauer bequeathed to the Swabian school.

The Rovers Return is the pub in Coronation Street, the British soap broadcast on ITV.

An exception is soap operas which are either on all year round ( for example EastEnders and Coronation Street ), or are on for a season similar to the American system.

William Roache has played Ken Barlow continuously from 1960 on the British soap Coronation Street, which is also the longest-running television soap in the world still in production.

Although Ireland has access to international soaps, such as Coronation Street, Emmerdale, EastEnders, Home and Away, Hollyoaks, Neighbours etc., Fair City continues to outperform them all, and is Ireland's most popular soap-opera, with the show peaking at over 700, 000 viewers.

** The first episode of the classic British TV series Coronation Street is broadcast.

The Stone of Scone (;, ), also known as the Stone of Destiny and often referred to in England as The Coronation Stone, is an oblong block of red sandstone, used for centuries in the coronation of the monarchs of Scotland and later the monarchs of England, Great Britain and the United Kingdom.

This is done in reciprocation to the sovereign's Coronation Oath, wherein he or she promises " to govern the Peoples of ... Canada ... according to their respective laws and customs.

The nineteenth-century coach used by the Dowager Duchess and the late Duke at the Queen's Coronation is on display there.

Before 1521, the Lord High Constable of England also presided, but that office was abolished as a permanent institution ( it is " revived " only for a Coronation ).

This includes the entirety of the soap opera Coronation Street which is now held at the Yorkshire Television archive, which itself possesses largely intact archives ( although some early colour shows from the late 1960s and the early 1970s such as the entire output of the drama Castle Haven, the first two series of Sez Les and the children's variety show Junior Showtime are missing and believed wiped ).

She is sometimes known by other names by different Inuit groups such as Arnapkapfaaluk (" Big Bad Woman ") of the Copper Inuit from the Coronation Gulf area and Takánakapsâluk or Takannaaluk ( Igloolik ).

A coin from the reign of each of those kings is set into the base of the stone. The Saxon Coronation Stone

* Coronation Stone-Situated outside The Guildhall in Kingston, this ancient rock was the crowning point of some of England's early kings and is what gives Kingston its name

Most of the space is taken up with the names of the victims of the 1940 Coronation Avenue incident.

* Coronation is often combined with other rituals, such as enthronement ( the throne is as much a symbol of monarchy as the crown ) and anointing ( again religious sanction, the only defining act in the Biblical tradition of Israel ).