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Review of Coronation Street Hayley’s death

It’s over, and the Corrie Coronation Street timelines on Twitter prior to last night’s epsiodes were basically saying either: ‘I don’t want to watch’, or ‘I’m going to cry my eyes out’.

It was clear that we’d have to wait until the end of the second episode for the actual suicide, and it seems that there’s some disagreement (and a lot of disappointment) this morning about what we saw.

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Hayley's death from cancer: 20th January 2014

Coronation Street’s pancreatic cancer storyline comes to its heartbreaking climax on Monday 20th January as Hayley Cropper takes her own life. Never before has there been a night when devoted Corrie fans won’t be looking forward to watching their favourite soap (and there probably never will be again), but watch we will, and cry we will. As with […]

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Christmas on Coronation Street

‘Rat-eyes’, secrets and lies, ‘an eye on the prize’ and impending goodbyes.

IMG_2872I’m a bit scared to admit it, but I didn’t really enjoy the Christmas week episodes …

According to the media we’d been promised ‘laughter all the way’, but Christmas on Coronation Street just fell a little bit short on the old ‘Ho, ho, ho’ for me.

“What on earth makes you say this, Jane?” you gasp.

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Peter and Carla got married

You can hear me talking Soaps 10.30-11.00 am every Thursday on Swindon 1055.com (or simply use the tunein Radio App) and on my internet Soap Show 6.00-6.30 every Thursday on Tellyspy. Connor? Barlow? Little does she know, he’s just a cheating ‘ho’! So. Peter and Carla got married … It’s not Mrs Connor now, is it? It’s Mrs Barlow. No. It doesn’t suit her at […]

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Peter and Tina get closer to 'the kiss'

You can hear me talking Soaps 10.30-11.00 am every Thursday on Swindon 1055.com (or simply use the tunein Radio App) and on my internet Soap Show 6.00-6.30 every Thursday on Tellyspy. Michelle’s sickened, Steve’s on a sticky wicket and Peter’s snookered. Ooh, I’d thought it might have happened this week, but as Peter and Tina get closer to ‘the kiss’, we’ve […]

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The truth always comes out in the end – sooner please!

(You can hear me talking Soaps 10.30-11.00 am every Thursday on Swindon 1055.com CLICK HERE TO LISTEN or simply use the Tunein Radio App. Carla’s planning; Peter’s plotting; Gail’s petting and Simon was petrified. It’s another eventful week in Coronation Street. Peter said that Simon had always ‘thought such a lot’ of Tina. Er, since when? I […]

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I want to look special, you know? Carla's planning the big day

(You can hear me talking Soaps 10.30-11.00 am every Thursday on Swindon 1055.com CLICK HERE TO LISTEN or simply use the Tunein Radio App. Corrie Corner’s been on a diet. Read the new, slimline version!  ‘DisGrace’ bullied little Simon into robbing from Dev’s this week (did you notice Dev practising his Ministry of Silly Walks walk on […]

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Corrie Corner: Roy and Hayley drift further apart

(You can hear me talking Soaps 10.30-11.00 am every Thursday on Swindon 1055.com CLICK HERE TO LISTEN or simply use the Tunein Radio App. Dressing gowns; dressing downs; special offer wallpaper, paper and pens and someone’s back to school again.  Roy got the bedroom decorated (much to Hayley’s horror), but no amount of decorating can ‘paper over […]

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Corrie Corner – 3rd November 2013

(You can hear me talking Soaps 10.30-11.00 am every Thursday on Swindon 1055.com CLICK HERE TO LISTEN or simply use the Tunein Radio App. It’s Halloween: hairy things, scary things, sticks and stones, sticks and carrots, creepy crisp packets and caterwauling. Apart from my Blackpool special last month (scroll down to read), this is the first Corrie Corner […]

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