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ITV Coronation Street and Happy Birthday Bill: Real life of Ken Barlow star William Roache - actress ex, famous sons and tragic losses

Bill is the world's longest-serving television actor and his 90th birthday is around the corner

Manchester Evening News

Coronation Street nearly had a very different name, according to ITV soap legend

Ken Barlow star Bill Roache has revealed that Coronation Street nearly had a very different name. The ITV soap has become a staple of British culture since its inception in the 1960s

Daily Mirror

Corrie's Bill Roache was 'teary eyed' over video from Sir Ian McKellen for 90th birthday

Coronation Street veteran William Roache turns 90 next week, with the milestone occasion being celebrated in a new ITV documentary titled Happy Birthday Bill

Daily Mirror

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Coronation Street's Ken legend Bill Roache reunites with first on-screen wife - and says she had crush on him

Fans of the ITV soap will get to see the reunion in Bill's 90th birthday documentary

Manchester Evening News

ITV Coronation Street's Bill Roache reunited with former screen wife after 50 years

Valerie was written out of the ITV soap after using a faulty hairdryer had tragic consequences

Liverpool Echo

ITV Coronation Street's Bill Roache reunites with former on screen wife Anne Reid

Viewers will get to see Bill and Anne reunite for the first time in years since Anne left the Cobbles over 50 years ago, when her character Valerie died at the hands of a faulty hairdryer.

Daily Record

Coronation Street Ken Barlow actor Bill Roache reunites with former screen wife Anne Reid

She had left the soap over 50 years ago

Nottingham Post

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'Partygate is constitutional crisis that will worsen until PM quits or is sacked'

The assessment that the PM broke the law, misled Parliament and shredded the ministerial code would – in a healthy democracy – result in change at the top, says the Voice of the Mirror

Daily Mirror

Coronation Street's Bill Roache reunited with former screen wife Anne Reid

ITV documentary Happy Birthday Bill celebrates Bill’s 90th birthday and sees Bill get back together with Anne, who played his first wife Valerie before her untimely demise

Daily Mirror

Coronation Street's Ellie Leach shows off incredible new look in glam snap

Coronation Street star Ellie Leach took to her Instagram to show off her new look - and fans are loving it

Daily Mirror

Coronation Street mark William Roache's 90th birthday with special documentary

Bill is is the longest serving TV soap star in the world

Liverpool Echo

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