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Ghanaian police names "Coronation Street" actor Philip Middlemiss as one of the four suspects in a £5 million bribery scandal over the sale of military planes, and asks he be turned over for questioning.
2020-05-15

British "Coronation Street" star William Roache, the world's longest-serving soap actor, is arrested and charged with two counts of raping a 15-year-old girl in 1967.
2013-05-1

Carol Ann Duffy, Jeanette Winterson, Simon Armitage, Melvin Burgess and the creator of "Coronation Street" are among signatories calling for the destruction of books to stop in Manchester.
2012-06-22

British television soap "Coronation Street" becomes the first prime time television show in the UK to use product placement after signing a deal with the Nationwide Building Society. A Nationwide cash machine is seen on screen in an episode.
2011-11-14

"Coronation Street" cat Frisky's ashes sell at auction for nearly six times the expected price in Gloucestershire, England.
2010-07-22

ITV postpones a third consecutive episode of its ongoing "Coronation Street" storyline, "Siege Week", due to the Cumbria shootings, while Sunday's omnibus is replaced by the film "Pollyanna".
2010-06-4

ITV postpones a second night of its soap opera "Coronation Street" due to a storyline which had similar themes to the Cumbria shootings.
2010-06-3

ITV's scheduled broadcast of the television series "Coronation Street", which was to mirror events in Cumbria, is cancelled and replaced with "TV Burp".
2010-06-2

Filming on the set of "Coronation Street" is suspended as actors and fans gather at Salford Cathedral to celebrate the life of veteran actress Maggie Jones (Blanche Hunt).
2010-02-25