Diana Wichtel: Corrie’s golden jubilee

Death, destruction and a lethal cloud of soap secrets mark Corrie’s golden jubilee.

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28th July, 2012

Carnage on t’cobbles. Coronation Street celebrated a glorious half-century of sudsy brilliance by blowing up half the core cast. Short of a storyline featuring Norris installing a defective nuclear reactor out the back of the Kabin to more economically power his dyspeptic tea breaks, there could scarcely have been more devastation. Event and aftermath went on for nights. The build-up involved increasingly ominous clickety-clacks emanating from the viaduct. As various simmering storylines came to a rolling boil, fate bore down on t’Street like, well, a runaway tram. “There’s ...

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