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Coronation Street is an award-winning UK soap opera created by Tony Warren, produced by Granada Television and aired by ITV. It first broadcast on Friday 9 December 1960, and is consistently one of the highest-rated programmes on British television.^[1] The programme features an ensemble cast of characters, comprised for the most part of residents of the fictional Coronation Street, located in Weatherfield, a fictional town in Salford, Greater Manchester.^[2] Recurring and minor characters in the show are often children of the Street's residents, or friends, relatives, lovers or antagonists introduced to the show for a single specific storyline.

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Amy Barlow

Amy Barlow, played by Amber Chadwick, is the daughter of Steve McDonald and Tracy Barlow. She was originally called Patience by Roy Cropper, who had been deceived into believing she was his daughter. However, her name was changed back to Amy when it was discovered Tracy had fabricated her daughter's paternity, having falsely claimed to have drugged and slept with Roy. Upon discovering her pregnancy, Tracy had decided to pretend the baby was Roy's, as she felt it would be easier to manipulate him than Steve. Initially, Tracy agreed to give her daughter to Roy and his transsexual wife Hayley in exchange for money. Amy lived with the Croppers for a few weeks, until Steve married Karen Phillips and Tracy confessed the truth. She then took her baby back and renamed her Amy.

Steve initially wanted nothing to do with his daughter, as he felt it could jeopardise his future with new wife Karen. However, when he and Karen broke up, Steve grew to love Amy and did everything he could to be a proper father to her, even getting together with Tracy for a while. Tracy loved Steve but her feelings were not reciprocated. As Steve and Tracy were unmarried when Amy was born, Steve wanted to sign for joint parental responsibility before breaking up with Tracy, as he feared she would try to take Amy away from him. However, Tracy guessed his plan, and they split up. Tracy went as far as to frame Steve for kidnap, but a court ruled that he should be given parental responsibility and see his daughter.

When Tracy was convicted for the murder of boyfriend Charlie Stubbs in April 2007, Amy went to live with Steve in the Rovers Return Inn. She now lives with Steve, grandmother Liz McDonald, Steve's girlfriend Michelle Connor, and Michelle's teenage son Ryan.

Simon Barlow

Simon Barlow (né Richards) was played by twins Jake and Oscar Hartley on his birth in 2003 and Alexander Bain when he returned in October 2008. He is the son of Peter Barlow and Lucy Richards, who returned to Coronation Street with his father following his mother's death from cancer.^[3] He and his father moved in with Ken and Deirdre Barlow, and while his Peter was originally reluctant to raise his son, he changed his mind when he found that Lucy had left him everything in her will on the provision that he raised Simon. Peter then purchased the local bookmaker's shop, and moved into the upstairs flat with Simon. Upon starting school on 1 December 2008, Simon befriended fellow Coronation Street infant, Joshua Peacock. On 19 December 2008, he was upset when Peter arrived at his Nativity play heavily drunk. He stayed with his grandparents for the night saying, "I don't like it when Daddy shouts".
At Christmas time, Peter was allowed to have Simon back at their home when Peter insisted that he should stop drinking alcohol for Simon's sake.

Natasha Blakeman

Natasha Blakeman, played by actress Rachel Leskovac, is a hairdresser in Audrey Roberts' hair salon. She made her first appearance on 12 May 2008. She came to Weatherfield as her old hairdressers had burnt down. In December 2008, she informed Audrey that her sister-in-law had just given birth to her niece, Electra. She spotted a good business opportunity in opening the salon for late night trading hours during the week, an idea which Audrey consented to.

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Julie Carp

Julie Carp, played by Katy Cavanagh, made her first onscreen appearance on 25 April 2008,^[4] as the new girlfriend of established character Kirk Sutherland. A Coronation Street insider revealed; “Kirk’s had a pretty tough time of late, but he’s finally found a kindred spirit in Julie.”^[5] Julie initially clashed with Kirk's ex-girlfriend Fiz Brown, however the two became good friends. Julie moved in with Kirk, Fiz and Chesney, and found a job at Underworld. Julie had two previous engagements and a disastrous marriage before she met Kirk.

Minnie Chandra

Minnie Chandra, played by Poppy Jhakra, first appeared on 17 November 2008. Jhakra was added to the soap's cast in a bid to better reflect Manchester's ethnic diversity.^[6] She is a college friend of Amber Kalirai and has became an employee at the kebab shop on Victoria Street. In December 2008, she met Tyrone Dobbs, whilst he was fixing her car at the garage. They began to flirt and Tyrone sold her knock-off perfume. Molly Compton, Tyrone's girlfriend looked on as Tyrone and Minnie went for a test drive, leading her to suspect Tyrone was having an affair.

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Wiki Dankowska

Wiki Dankowska (IPA: [vɪ.kɪ dæn.kaʊ.skæ]), played by Wanda Opalinska, made her first appearance on 26 February 2007 as a new employee of Carla Connor at the Underworld factory. As a Polish immigrant, she was paid less than other employees, and they became concerned that their pay would be affected by this. She was bullied by Joanne Jackson and Janice Battersby, but Hayley Cropper secured her equal pay for her from Liam Connor. She is the only factory worker to have seen Kasia Barowicz fall and die in the factory during an illegal shift. Paul, Carla and Liam covered up Kasia's death until 8:00am the following morning, when the death would be covered by their insurance. Wiki went along with this when Carla told her that if they didn't do this, Kasia's family would get no compensation money. Wiki has a son back home in Poland, aged 21, and she is working in Underworld to support him.

She has since started her own business selling underwear. In early 2008, Wiki spotted Kelly Crabtree stealing rejected underwear from Underworld to sell at her own knicker party, and Wiki was torn between telling Carla or keeping it secret. She was soon accused of stealing them herself but Kelly stepped forward to take the blame. She rarely is seen getting angry, but when Janice Battersby returned to work, having been arrested for fraud, after it was discovered she had kept the winnings that had been meant for the Lottery syndicate she was a part of for herself, Wiki was very angry with her and declared that it would be a long time before their friendship could be repaired.

On 25 December 2008, she spent Christmas with Emily Bishop, Norris Cole and Mary Taylor, where she cooked them a traditional Polish dinner. Though they weren't impressed she didn't notice and got merry.

Jimmy Dockerson

Jimmy Dockerson is played by actor Robert Beck. The character first appeared on 11 July 2008, as a henchman of Tony Gordon, sabotaging the clients of Kevin Webster. Several months later, Jimmy reappeared when Tony discovered that his fiance Carla Connor had had an affair with her brother-in-law Liam. Tony arranged a hit-and-run in order to murder Liam, hiring Jimmy to carry it out. On 22 December 2008, he met up with friend Tony where he told him not to call him again. A few days later, after Tony attempted to murder Jed Stone, he called to ask for Jimmy's help but he hung up on him.

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Colin Grimshaw

Colin Grimshaw is a fictional character in the British ITV soap opera Coronation Street. He is portrayed by Edward de Souza, his first appearance was 12 December 2008.^[7] He arrived by meeting Peter Barlow at the bookies. As he was putting on a bet, daughter Eileen phoned, though he said he was on the bus to Weatherfield as he is known for his betting and drinking. He stopped off at the Rover's and took a fancy to a bemused Rita Sullivan. He called Eileen, again lying to her about his whereabouts, but she recognized the pub owner's voice in the background. She marched across the street and handed him his cold dinner, pouring the entire salt canister on top for good measure. Colin followed her home and gave her some flowers Tyrone Dobbs had thrown away (Colin told her he'd paid for them at great expense). Eileen forgave him. Colin continued to give short strift to his daughter, lying to her on Christmas Day so he could spend the day with Rita. When Rita found out what he'd done, she apologized to Eileen, but Eileen told her it was to be expected.

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Pam Hobsworth

Pam Hobsworth (née Compton), played by Kate Anthony, made her first appearance on 16 July 2008 as established character Molly Compton's aunt. Her arrival was first announced in April 2008.^[8] Pam was introduced in July 2008, seen as a stranger selling ham to Blanche Hunt in the Rovers Return Inn. When Molly arrived at the pub, they recognised each other instantly. On 25 July 2008, Pam extravagantly bought Molly's boyfriend Tyrone Dobbs a Fabergé egg to use to propose to Molly. Pam told Jack Duckworth, Molly, and Tyrone that she could leave if she'd worn out her welcome, but they insisted she stay. Pam had led them to believe her husband had died, but confided in Molly that he'd thrown her out for having an affair with the renderer. Pam convinced Tyrone that Molly wanted a lavish wedding, and began teaching him how to make more money. She entered into a small row with Tyrone's mother Jackie after she upset Molly and Tyrone.

She encouraged Tyrone to help her with her business by selling cheap merchandise in October 2008. Two months later Molly found out that Tyrone had been selling for Pam and walked out on him causing Tyrone to be furious with Pam. However, it's clear that all Pam wants is to see her niece Molly happily married to Tyrone.

December 2008 saw Pam buying the kebab shop chip fat from Darryl Morton to convert into biofuel. In the 2008 New Year episode, she was left unconscious, when she came to move the fuel out of Jack Duckworth's outside toilet where she and Darryl had been storing it. The sparks from the angle grinder which Pam was using ignited the biofuel causing it to explode.^[9] However, she made a full recovery in hospital the following day.

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Tom Kerrigan

Tom Kerrigan, played by Philip McGinley, is the cousin of Liam, Paul and Michelle Connor. He returned to Coronation Street in June 2008, having previously being seen at Liam's stag party in February that year. On his return, he got flirty with Carla, his cousin's widow, much to her fiance, Tony Gordon's dislike. Tom made friends with gay character Sean Tully. On September 3rd 2008, Sean asked Tom could he kiss him but Tom refused as to being straight. Sean then stormed off in a huff. This led to Sean's partner Marcus Dent punching Tom after he suspected he had slept with Sean.

In September 2008, Tom entered into a men's shirt business called 'Lad Rags' with Liam. Unable to get a loan from the bank, Tom turned to Carla who gave him the 50,000 pounds that he needed, on the condition that she could have a 25% share in the business. This angered Liam at first but he eventually accepted the partnership.

Tom was devastated when Liam was killed by a hit-and-run driver in October 2008. Weeks after his death, Tom was confronted by Liam's wife Maria about Carla's involvement in 'Lad Rags' and he was forced to admit that Carla had invested money in the business.

On 3 December 2008, at Tony and Carla's wedding, Tom; along with Michelle had eventually discovered Liam and Carla's affair as it was revealed by Sally Webster to Maria. This had infuriated her and was about to confront Carla, but she arrived upon her departure to her honeymoon along with her new husband Tony. Tom was confused as to the repeated allegations Maria made, and tried his best to convince her that he knew of no affair. When Maria began to believe Tony had killed Liam, Tom tried to convince her of Tony's innocence.

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Joe McIntyre

Joe McIntyre, played by Reece Dinsdale, first appeared on 26 May 2008. He later appeared on 13 June 2008 where he met his daughter Tina's boyfriend David. He became a permanent character in August 2008, beginning a secret romance with Gail Platt, David's mother. Joe also arranged a date for Tina and David in an attempt to reunite them, but failed. In October 2008, he offered David a job fitting kitchens, much to the delight of Tina.

On 12 November 2008, his secret romance with Gail was discovered by David and daughter Tina when they walked in with friend Graeme Proctor.^[10] Joe was less than happy when he found out that David menaced the Windasses, a family who refused to pay for a kitchen they had fitted.^[11]. A back and forth began between the Windasses and David and Tina, one which hit Joe personally when his tools (his livelihood) were stolen. Another shock lay in store for Joe as he discovered that the Windasses had moved in next door to the Platts. He reluctantly made peace with Eddie upon Gail's insistence.

Joe wanted to be the perfect boyfriend for Gail, and when the Windasses stole her kitchen, he went to great expense to build her a new one, not telling her that the failure of his business had left him in ever-increasing debt. His plan for the perfect Christmas was ruined when Gail invited Anna and Eddie Windass for Christmas Day. They gave him a tool belt as a Christams present, which reminded Joe of the tools their son Gary had stolen from him. When Gary repeatedly made moves on Tina, and Gary and David got into a brawl, Joe had enough. He began screaming at the Windasses, telling them they were pathetic, and throwing food at them. ^[12] They left the house humiliated. Joe then walked out. The next day, Gail and Joe made up, but Gail was shaken, as he'd reminded her of some of the bad men from her past.

Mike

Mike, played by Anthony Bessick, first appeared when Janice Battersby was forced to do community service at the local hospital. One day she went for a smoke break and met Mike. He told her he was in for a chest infection, downgraded from pneumonia. She told him about her community service, and they laughed over their shared misfortune. Janice then went back to work, but that night her friends told her she'd been beaming the whole time she'd been out with them, which suggested that she still had Mike on her mind.

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Ted Page

Ted Page, played by Michael Byrne, is the long lost father of Gail Platt, and made his first appearance on 28 April 2008.^[13] A week after his arrival, Ted revealed he was gay, and had recently lost his partner of twenty years. Audrey Roberts, before splitting up with Ted fifty years previously, had discovered she was pregnant and didn't want to tell him. This resulted in Gail being born. Upon learning this, Ted became agitated as he realised he had missed out on 50 years of his daughters life and had never seen his grandchildren, Nick, Sarah and David or his great grandchildren, Bethany and Billy. Ted soon met Gail and they bonded almost instantly. Ted supported David when he was going to his job interview at a salon, going so far as to write a letter of recommendation using Audrey's name. He befriended Ken Barlow, offering him an extra ticket for a play. This led to Ken's mother-in-law Blanche Hunt suspecting Ken might become gay. Ted then became a support system for Audrey following her car accident and breakup with Bill Webster.

Ted returned home in early autumn 2008, but is still occasionally referenced by the other characters.

Joshua Peacock

Joshua Peacock, played by Benjamin Beresford, was born on 8 April 2002 at Weatherfield General Hospital. He is the result of a one-night-stand between Maxine Peacock and Matt Ramsden, though is being raised by Maxine's former husband Ashley Peacock, and new wife Claire Peacock, after his mother was murdered by Street serial killer Richard Hillman when Joshua was nine months old. Matt now has regular contact with his son, and Joshua has a younger brother by Ashley and Claire, Freddie. Joshua became good friends with Simon Barlow when he was enrolled in his primary school in December 2008.

Freddie Peacock

Frederick "Freddie" Thomas Peacock^[14] (né Thomas Duncan Peacock) is played by Dylan and Hayden Whitbread. He was born on 17 July 2006 to Claire and Ashley Peacock. Claire suffered from post natal depression after Freddie was born, refusing to believe that Freddie was her child. On one occasion, she pushed his pram into the path of an oncoming vehicle, and also attempted to return him to the hospital. She was temporarily sectioned until she recovered and was able to return home. In October 2006, Claire announced that she would like to have his name changed from Thomas to Freddie, after his paternal grandfather Fred Elliott who had died the week before. In December 2006 he was christened Frederick Thomas, with Eileen Grimshaw as his godmother, and Roy Cropper as his godfather.

In May 2007, a fire was started in Freddie's bedroom. Claire was rescued from the burning building, but Freddie was not discovered until later in the day, wrapped up in a local park. It was revealed that the fire had been started deliberately by use of an accelerant. Originally, this storyline was to last several months, but it was rewritten to avoid upsetting the family of Madeleine McCann, who disappeared two weeks previously.^[15] In September 2007 the identity of Freddie's abductor was revealed to be Claire's former friend Casey Carswell. Casey abducted Freddie and took him to the balcony of her flat where she threatened to jump with him. Freddie was rescued unharmed, and Casey arrested.

Poppy

Poppy, is played by Sophiya Haque. She first appeared on 17 December 2008. She arrived at the Rovers Return Inn with friend Liz McDonald, whom she had met in a Brazilian Crunch exercise class. Poppy caught Liz's attention as she is a well known barmaid. ^[16] She is the 51st Rovers barmaid, she was offered 'Assistant Manager' which she accepted, following Michelle Connor hinting at not wanting extra shifts. Poppy also offered to take on Betty Williams' shifts while she visited her son Gordon Clegg and his family in Wimbledon over the Christmas period. One day a couple was kissing in the Rover's, and Poppy jokingly grabbed Lloyd Mullaney to show what a "real kiss" was like, unknowingly annoying Liz, who had feelings for Lloyd.

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Mary Taylor

Mary Taylor, played by Pattie Clare, made her first onscreen appearance on 26 November 2008.^[17] She is a love interest for Norris Cole. The character has been introduced for this specific storyline as both herself and Norris have an obsession with entering competitions. Mary lives with and takes care of her invalid mother and uses the competitions as a way to enjoy life. Norris initially resented Mary, as she often beat him in competitions, but when they met, they quickly became close, and Mary offered Norris one of the tickets she'd won for a Cliff Richard concert. Mary began to visit Norris more often. Norris' fellow lodger, Jed Stone, enjoyed flirting with Mary, but Mary only had eyes for Norris. Norris invited her to his home for Christmas.

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D.C. Weller

D.C. Weller was played by Caroline Paterson. She was the police detective heading the investigating team after David Platt had pushed his mother, Gail down the stairs of their home in March 2008. She reappeared on 17 December 2008, to question Tony Gordon over the death of Liam Connor.

Eddie Windass

Edward "Eddie" Windass, played by Steve Huison made his first appearance on November 14 2008, after David Platt and his boss Joe McIntyre confronted him and his family about a bounced cheque which was used to pay for their fitted kitchen. Several weeks later the Windasses moved into Coronation Street after renting number 6 from Jerry Morton.^[18] After Anna nagging him to find employment, Eddie got a job as a taxi driver at Streetcars, but was reluctant to hand over any paperwork to Steve McDonald due to fiddling Incapacity Benefit.

Anna Windass

Anna Windass, played by Debbie Rush, made her first appearance on 14 November 2008, and is the wife of Eddie.^[18] On 8 December 2008, Anna moved into No. 6 Coronation Street with the rest of her family. She had a heart-to-heart with Gail Platt as their families were feuding and convinced Eddie to make peace with Gail's partner Joe.

Gary Windass

Gary Windass, played by Mikey North, made his first appearance on 14 November 2008, and is the son of Eddie and Anna Windass.^[18] He and his uncle Len went after David Platt and Joe McIntyre after David menaced his parents into handing over the money they owed for a new kitchen. He took Joe's working tools as Len threatened him. Gary and Len stole and burned out a sports car that David and his friend Graeme had been driving. Gary was later furious when David smugly informed him that the car was already stolen.

On Christmas Eve 2008, he flirted with Rosie Webster in the Rovers, the pair then got drunk on Rosie's birthday champagne and ended up in bed together that night much to the annoyance of Kevin and Sally. The following day, Gary virtually ignored Rosie when he arrived at the Platts' Christmas dinner party. He then got into a fist fight with David after telling him he had set his sights on David's girlfriend Tina McIntyre.

On New Year's Day 2009, Gary constantly pestered Tina which resulted in Tina's father Joe warning him off.

Len Windass

Len Windass, played by Conor Ryan is a character on Coronation Street. Len is the brother of Eddie Windass and the uncle of Gary Windass. He made his first appearance on November 14 2008. Graeme Proctor warned friend David Platt not to mess with Len and the family as it would lead to trouble after David had been back to the family's house to demand payment for their new kitchen. Len and Gary menaced Joe McIntyre out of his tools in retaliation to David's threat against Len's brother, Eddie and his wife Anna, in order to recover some money they owed.^[18]

See also

• Current characters

Notes

References

• Little, Daran (2000). 40 Years of Coronation Street. London: Andre Deutsch. ISBN 0-233-99806-3. 

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