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AT seven o’clock on the evening of December ninth, 1960, the first episode of a brand-new drama was transmitted. Sixty-five years later, “Coronation Street” is the longest-running television soap oper

Lives are changed for ever in an explosive soap first

A multi-car pile-up sees the worlds of Emmerdale and Coronation Street explosively collide for the first time in a special one-off episode. But not everyone will escape the wreckage alive…

Kick-starting Coronation Street and Emmerdale’s new ‘power hour’ schedule of half-hour weekday episodes, one-hour special Corriedale celebrates both soaps, with some of the cast from each drama caught

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