"Well Steve, you get the Gold award for being the longest watcher. I wonder how many more can say they have seen Corrie from the start."

Me! (Although I'm a lapsed heretic nowadays - gave up watching all soaps a few years ago). I can remember watching the first episode sitting on the settee with me mum and the dog.

And Bill Podmore's mum and dad lived in our street when I was a kid.