Coronation Street

If TV soap pubs were real, this is how much disasters would cost

21-Jul-2017 By Nikkie Sutton

Disasters at the UK’s favourite TV soap pubs would costs hundreds of thousands of pounds if the incidents happened in real life, according to security experts.

Former Corrie actor backed pubco to add two further sites

10-Nov-2014 By Noli Dinkovski

The team behind a Manchester pub that sources its food entirely from local growers are set to open two new sites.

Hayley Cropper's final ale: Coronation Street star has her own beer

20-Jan-2014 By Robyn Black

Staffordshire-based beer retailer, Best of British Beer, has unveiled the beer it was commissioned to supply for the leaving party of actress Julie Hesmondhalgh, whose character Hayley Cropper has died in long-running ITV soap Coronation Street.

Ex-Beautiful South singer seeks pubs to play at

11-Jan-2010 By James Wilmore

Ex-Beautiful South singer Paul Heaton is looking for venues to perform at as part of a cycling tour to promote traditional pubs. Heaton will begin...

Mulholland attacks BBPA's new campaign

26-Nov-2008

Liberal Democrat MP Greg Mulholland has attacked the BBPA for going it alone and launching its own campaign highlighting the plight of pubs and beer...

Corrie star's pub in administration

07-Jul-2008 By Ewan Turney

Coronation Street star Bev Callard's pub operating company goes into administration as she reveals how tough the life of a licensee is.

There's a guy down the local swears he's Elvis

01-May-2008

From Chris Evans to Michael Parkinson, the wave of celebrity interest in buying and running pubs is gaining momentum. Nigel Huddleston reports It's...

Wake up and smell the potpourri

30-Aug-2007

Bring back tobacco, says Adam Edwards. At least it doesn't reek as much as some customers In the mid-'60s it was said of soap opera Coronation Street...

Pete Robinson: Grotty backstreet boozers

03-Aug-2007

There's a lovely old song that begins: "Every street that you meet is a Coronation Street; There's a Rover's Return where the folks all like to...

Host's epic trek raises £30,000

14-Sep-2006 By John Harrington

Licensee Darren Apps' amazing ability to overcome aching feet and a dramatic car-jack to complete his epic 944-mile charity walk shows that pubs do...

Woolpack could be yours for £600,000

11-Nov-2005

The freehold of the Woolpack, known to millions as the pub in ITV's long-running soap series Emmerdale, is being offered for sale through licensed...

Stand up to threats against community pubs, says James Crawf

24-Mar-2005

Driving home from work the other evening, too lazy to change stations when the irritating theme tune of the longest-running radio serial in the world...

Starters - TV Dinners

01-Jan-2004

Betty's Hotpot - Just how soon after her Coronation Street debut in 1969 Betty Williams (formerly Turpin) started churning out Lancashire's home dish is lost in the mists of time.

Soaps blamed for unhealthy eating

29-Sep-2003

Betty's hotpot might be a favourite dish among the residents of Coronation Street but it is being blamed for encouraging unhealthy habits in soap...

TV soaps lose plot with pub scenes, says group

22-May-2003

by Tony Halstead Television soap pubs have been rapped by Britain's brewers for promoting bad practice in the nation's bars. The campaign group Beer...

It's bars in their eyes

30-Jan-2003

by Tony Halstead London's Nylon bar will be thrust under the national spotlight in March as the venue for a new ITV network reality show The Club....

Pubs show red card to World Cup

30-May-2002

Pubs all over the country are leading a good-humoured backlash against the World Cup.After many pubs fought to be allowed to open early to show...