* 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.

Coronation Street is produced by ITV Granada Television under ITV Studios and shown in all ITV regions.

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In spite of rising popularity with viewers, Coronation Street was criticised by some for its outdated portrayal of the urban working-class, and its representation of a community that was a nostalgic fantasy.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 arrival of Channel 4 and its edgy new soap opera Brookside in 1982 was one of the biggest changes for Coronation Street.

From 1999 to 2001, Jane MacNaught was Coronation Street's executive producer, and received harsh criticism from both viewers and critics.

In 2007, several groundbreaking storylines took place on Coronation Street, such as Tracy Barlow murdering Charlie Stubbs and claiming it was self-defence, as well as the show featuring its second two hander with Tracy Barlow confessing to her mother Deirdre Barlow she had planned to kill Charlie all along.

May 2010 also saw the funeral of Coronation Street favourite Blanche Hunt, who was written out after the death of her portrayer Maggie Jones on 2 December 2009.

On 31 May 2010, the Coronation Street opening sequence was given a revamp.

It was left unannounced whether Coronation Street would return the following day, but it was later announced that it would not be returning that week, and return the following Monday as a result of what had happened.

On 7 July 2010 it was announced that Coronation Street was working with The Mill and the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive ( responsible for the operation of Manchester Metrolink ) to film a spectacular and realistic tram crash.

Coronation Streets 50th anniversary week was celebrated by broadcasting seven consecutive episodes, along with a special one hour live episode, from 6 – 10 December.

In January 2011, it was announced that one of Coronation Street < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s original characters Dennis Tanner would make a return after 43 years off screen.

Between 9 December 1960 and 3 March 1961, Coronation Street was broadcast twice weekly, on Wednesday and Friday.

The terms of the work-to-rule were that staff refused to work with the new equipment ( though the old black and white equipment had been disposed of by then ) and therefore programmes were recorded and transmitted in black and white, including Coronation Street The dispute was resolved in early 1971 and the last black and white episode was broadcast on 8 February 1971.

From 22 March 2010, Coronation Street was produced in 1080 / 50i for transmission on HDTV platforms on ITV1 HD.

Harry Kershaw was the script editor for Coronation Street when the programme began in 1960, working alongside Tony Warren.

Adele Rose was the longest-serving Coronation Street writer, completing 455 scripts between 1961 and 1998.

It was her coronation by her husband, Napoleon I, that David depicted so memorably in the Coronation of Napoleon and Josephine, 2 December 1804.

One of the works David was commissioned for was The Coronation of Napoleon in Notre Dame.

Matvey Shishkov's design for the last scene of Pushkin's drama, ' The House of Boris ' ( see illustration, right ), was substituted for this hybrid of the Novodevichiy and Coronation scenes.

Over the last 50 years, since its establishment as the capital of Bhutan, Thimphu city has witnessed expansion, initially at a slow pace and rapidly after the country was opened up to the outside world in 1974 during the Coronation of the fourth King, Jigme Singye Wangchuck when international media were present, and which marked Bhutan's " debut appearance on the world stage.

The Chelmsford Rugby Football Club was established in 1920 and for the last 40 years have been playing rugby at Coronation Park, Timpsons Lane, Chelmsford.

Nevertheless Meyerbeer's last years saw the composition of a good deal of non-operatic music, including a Coronation March for William I of Prussia, ( 1861 ), an overture for the 1862 International Exhibition in London, and incidental music ( now lost ) to Henri Blaze de Bury's play La jeunesse de Goethe ( 1860 ).

He was partially paralysed when he began a fresco of the Baptism of Christ in the chapel of Cardinal Passerini's palace near Cortona, which ( or else a Coronation of the Virgin at Foiano ) is the last picture specified as his.

The Sovereign then exits the Coronation Theatre, entering St Edward's Chapel ( also within the Abbey ), preceded by the bearers of the Sword of State, the Sword of Spiritual Justice, the Sword of Temporal Justice and the Sword of Mercy ( the last has a blunt tip ).

In September 2000, Akunin was named Russian Writer of the Year and won the " Antibooker " prize in 2000 for his Erast Fandorin novel Coronation, or the last of the Romanovs.

Since then, the leading contenders have often gone on to run in the Coronation Cup, and the last to win both events in the same year was Shirocco in 2006.

Other notable works include Coronation of the Virgin by Antonio Vivarini and Giovanni d ' Alemagna in the Chapel of the Holy Nail and St Pantalon healing a Boy, the last work by Veronese, originally commissioned for the high altar.

As Elizabeth II has been the British monarch for over half a century and hers is to date the last event so commemorated, there are no recent " Coronation issue " stamps as envisioned here.

At Epsom he was third choice in the betting for the Coronation Cup behind Royal Anthem and the 1998 European Horse of the Year Dream Well, but produced a sustained run in the last quarter mile to beat those rivals by three quarters of a length and half a length.

The last of the three, written for the 1642 – 43 carnival, was L ' incoronazione di Poppea (" The Coronation of Poppea "), performed shortly before the composer's death in 1643.

Beverly's last scenes for another exit were aired in April 2011 as she left Coronation Street seemingly for good.

* 7 April – Margot Bryant makes her last appearance as Minnie Caldwell on Coronation Street.

When the last occupant left in 1896, the Hall & Gardens were bought on behalf of the people of Spalding as a memorial of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, and was handed over to the town " free of debt " on 9 August 1902 in celebration of the Coronation of King Edward VII.

Veronica " Vera " Duckworth ( née Burton ), played by Elizabeth Dawn, is a fictional character on the British soap opera Coronation Street, first appearing in August 1974 and last appearing in episode 6, 734 on 18 January 2008, where the character peacefully died in her sleep at the age of 70 from heart failure.

A sword identified with Charlemagne's Joyeuse was carried in front of the Coronation processionals for French kings, for the first time in 1270 ( Philip III ), and for the last time in 1824 ( Charles X ).