TV bosses have confirmed that home of TV’s longest-running soap opera is to be demolished.
It has been the scene of murders and rapes, assaults and catfights, marriages and divorces, unexpected arrivals and dramatic departures. But the street in which TV’s longest-running soap opera – Coronation Street- is facing the wrecking ball as the set is moved from Quay Street in Manchester city centre to a site near Manchester United’s Old Trafford stadium after ITV resumed talks to relocate its offices.
Following the appointment of new ITV chairman Archie Norman, negotiations have begun again to relocate the soap’s famous pub and cobbled streets to the £600m Media City UK in Salford Quays.
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