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Why Haley won't come a cropper on road to stardom that's paved with cobbles

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Coronation Street only wrote in a transgender character as a joke

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Sarah Lancashire braced for brutual return to Happy Valley

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Educating Yorkshire’s choir sings to millions at TV awards

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Samaritans see rise in calls after Street plot

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Jayne Dowle: Courage of a drama that makes us face up to matters of life and dea...

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ITV postpones second episode of the Street

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