Coronation Street Blog's best bits of 2013

As we head towards the end of this year, it's time to take stock and blow our own trumpet with our achievements from the Coronation Street Blog during 2013. 

January 2013

• Our blog team is invited by ITV to a VIP tour of the Coronation Street set.
• Our blogger Kathryn reported from ITV's press launch for Tyrone and Kirsty's wedding 
• The Daily Mirror use one of our original blog posts and give us a credit and link, after I point out they've used our work word-for-word.
• We attend Corrie fan event Corriefest in Manchester
• We join and help promote the Free Tyrone campaign online
• We support Corrie's carbon monoxide poisoning storyline by offering free carbon monoxide detectors to fans

February 2013

•  We're featured in the Daily Express magazine talking about Becky McDonald
• Exclusive interview with Rapid Fire Cover, the people who set the Rovers Return on fire.
  

March 2013

•  We're given first exclusive pictures of the Coronation Street sponsor meerkats

 April 2013

• We're given the first official pictures of Corrie's new set at Media City, exclusively by ITV.
• We're given the first exclusive pictures of Amanda Barrie in pantomime

May 2013

• Our Top 5 Rovers Return moments are included on the official Coronation Street website at itv.com/corrie 
  
• Our blogger Graeme (pictured above in the Rovers) went on a very special visit to ITV to interview some of the cast  - read part 1 and part 2
• Our blogger Llifon's polls to find Corrie fans' favourite accessory makes news in the local press, and in The Star
• We're given the fist pictures of the new Rovers Return after the fire 
• ITV ask for our help to find Coronation Street finds for a screening of Surprise Surprise 
• We donate to charity in exchange for a VIP interview with DJ and radio presenter Jonny Mac 

July 2013

•  Exclusive interview with Edna Walker, the original Coronation Street wardrobe lady
• Our blogger Stevie's dog featured on ITV's This Morning as a Corrie look-a-like

August 2013

• We donate to charity in exchange for interview with Ian Kershaw - TV writer and husband of Corrie's Julie Hesmondhalgh.
• Exclusive interview with the stunt men behind the Coronation Street van crash, Rapid Fire Cover.

September 2013

• Our blogger Scott meets and interviews Corrie's Liz McDonald, actor Beverley Callard

October 2013

• Our bloggers Flaming Nora and Sunny Jim are invited by ITV to Blackpool for a Coronation Street day out, with a difference.
• We interview Coronation Street Story Associate Furquan Akhtar

November 2013

• We attend the launch of the brand new Coronation Street set  
• Our blogger Graeme meets and interviews Corrie's Hayley, actress Julie Hesmondhalgh
• Our blogger Tvor meets and interviews Corrie's Rob, actor Marc Baylis, in Canada
• Our blogger LV interviews Corrie's Curly Watts, actor Kevin Kennedy
• Our blogger Ruth meets and interviews Corrie's Todd, actor Bruno Langley

December 2013 

• We interview the Coronation Street Casting Director, Janet Hampson
• Our blogger Ruth meets and interviews Corrie's Andrea, actress Hayley Tamaddon
• Our blogger Ruth meets and interviews Corrie's Kal, actor Kimi Mistry

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 In addition to all of the above, our stats have gone sky-high and continue to rise. 

We remain the only Coronation Street fan site to offer exclusive news, reviews and competitions and are very proud indeed of all we achieve. We also now run the fan website www.corrie.net

It's a team effort and with a great team of Corrie fans and writers, we have been able to produce some of the best quality, funniest, most incisive comment on Coronation Street anywhere in the world - online, offline, in print and in press.

Onwards to 2014!

See also: Coronation Street Blog's best bits of 2012

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Review: Coronation Street 2013 - deaths, births, snogs and Blackpool

Relive the Coronation Street year of 2013 through our fun, fan blog posts. 

What were your own highs and lows of Corrie this year? 

Find out what happened this year in:
January 2013, February 2013, March 2013, April 2013, May 2013, June 2013, July 2013, August 2013, September 2013, October 2013, November 2013, December 2013

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Coronation Street review - December 2013

Here we go with our annual review of Coronation Street month-by-month, all wrapped up in a little reminder of what's gone on in Weatherfield this year.

December 2013
Carla and Peter get wed; Hayley’s given weeks to live; Peter fancies Tina; Sean fancies Todd; Tim takes up window cleaning;  Kal arrives; Andrea arrives; Maddie arrives;  Brian leaves; Dennis and Gloria grow close; the nativity play and drunken parent storyline gets recycled: “Don’t worry” says little Simon “this happens every year.”
   
Best gift of the month:  Rita and Norris buy Norris a new coat, so the nosy parker’s in a parka.
 
Unseen prop of the month: the Morecambe Bay corkscrew 

Bitch of the month:
Dennis:  “I used to rub  shoulders with the movers and the shakers, back in the day.”
Rita: “When I met you, you were rubbing shoulders with the winos and the drunks."
Ouch.

Find out what happened earlier this year in:
January 2013
February 2013
March 2013
April 2013
May 2013
June 2013
July 2013
August 2013
September 2013
October 2013
November 2013


Check out all of our Coronation Street Blog posts from December 2013 and read the Corrie weekly updates here. 

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Coronation Street review - November 2013

Here we go with our annual review of Coronation Street month-by-month, all wrapped up in a little reminder of what's gone on in Weatherfield this year.

November 2013

Todd returns and starts work at Streetcars;  Grace bullies little Simon; Roy redecorates; Steve signs up for college; Carla asks Hayley to make her wedding dress; Brian lies to Julie about wanting to foster kids; Beth’s caught cheating at Underworld; Nick goes into meltdown; Deirdre goes to Canada to be with Ken; Hayley starts chemotherapy; Tina flirts with Peter

Bistro chef's problem of the month: Soggy shallots.

And this month we learned the cab office biscuit tin etiquette: “Never eat the last one. Never!” 

Find out what happened earlier this year in:
January 2013
February 2013
March 2013
April 2013
May 2013
June 2013
July 2013
August 2013
September 2013
October 2013

Check out all of our Coronation Street Blog posts from November 2013 and read the Corrie weekly updates here.

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Coronation Street review - October 2013

Here we go with our annual review of Coronation Street month-by-month, all wrapped up in a little reminder of what's gone on in Weatherfield this year.

October 2013

Roy and Hayley go to Blackpool; Liz McDonald returns; Michelle starts work at Rovers; Eva starts work at Underworld; Chesney starts work at Prima Doner; Ryan leaves; Tim hides from Sally in his flat; Nick wakes from his coma; Owen has a run-in with Phelan; Daddy Connor arrives from Ireland; Tina chucks a brick through Barlow’s Buys window; David moves in with Tina.

Characters mentioned this month we'd like to meet: Big Garth off the market.

Find out what happened earlier this year in:
January 2013
February 2013
March 2013
April 2013
May 2013
June 2013
July 2013
August 2013 
September 2013

Check out all of our Coronation Street Blog posts from October 2013 and read the Corrie weekly updates here.

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Coronation Street review - September 2013

Here we go with our annual review of Coronation Street month-by-month, all wrapped up in a little reminder of what's gone on in Weatherfield this year.

September 2013

Hayley contacts her son Christian; Jason and Dev play detective and suss out Karl; Fiz moves in with Tyrone; Craig cracks and tells Beth about Karl;  Faye’s friend Grace arrives; Karl’s caught and taken to jail.

Stories that started this month and were forgotten: Audrey’s damp problem in her downstairs area.

Find out what happened earlier this year in:
January 2013
February 2013
March 2013
April 2013
May 2013
June 2013
July 2013
August 2013  

Check out all of our Coronation Street Blog posts from September 2013 and read the Corrie weekly updates here.

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Coronation Street review - August 2013

Here we go with our annual review of Coronation Street month-by-month, all wrapped up in a little reminder of what's gone on in Weatherfield this year.

August 2013

David causes van smash that puts Nick in th’ospital; Craig confides to Karl that he blames himself for the Rovers fire; Jenna starts work in Roy’s Rolls; Roy and Hayley holiday in Mary’s motorhome; Rob and Tracy open Barlow’s Buys; Mandy leaves; Sylvia leaves; Paul the fireman leaves; Rita gets threatened on the Red Rec.

Fat Brenda’s diet of the month: The milkshake diet - using a milkshake to wash down the bacon barms. 

Best line of the month goes to Mary: “I’ve got pianist’s fingers, which is much like housemaid’s knee, only more middle-class.” 

Fictional character mentioned this month we'd love to meet - Little Shane Dooley, the paper boy

Find out what happened earlier this year in:
January 2013
February 2013
March 2013
April 2013
May 2013
June 2013  
July 2013
        

Check out all of our Coronation Street Blog posts from August 2013 and read the Corrie weekly updates here.


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Coronation Street review - June 2013

Here we go with our annual review of Coronation Street month-by-month, all wrapped up in a little reminder of what's gone on in Weatherfield this year.

June 2013

Tina gives birth to Izzy’s baby; Dev tries to clear Sunita’s name of arson; Sally tries internet dating; Carla pays Rob £5k to get him out of Underworld; Roy captures himself sleepwalking on CCTV;  Emily falls off a ladder, sprains her foot and Norris looks after her, stealing a DVD box set of film noir films from Freda; David starts his evil plan of revenge against Nick for sleeping with Kylie, Tim leaves Faye in the flat alone when he goes away to work.

Horse names in Barlow's Bookies we liked this month: Trumpet Trousers

Quote of the month as Deirdre sums up her life to Eileen over a bottle of red wine: “Disappointment. With an undercurrent of fear.”

Underworld suppliers we liked this month: Sandra at Saunders of Sunderland

Find out what happened earlier this year in January 2013, February 2013, March 2013, April 2013, May 2013            

Check out all of our Coronation Street Blog posts from June 2013 and read the Corrie weekly updates here.

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Coronation Street review - May 2013

Here we go with our annual review of Coronation Street month-by-month, all wrapped up in a little reminder of what's gone on in Weatherfield this year.

May 2013

The Rovers Return reopens after the fire; Roy goes looking for this dad, ends up heartbroken and blames Hayley for encouraging him to read his dad’s letter. "I’m truly sorry, Roy, if I’m in any way to blame…" she says to which Roy replies: "But you are, Hayley. You are. You are to blame,” before going off the rails in the caff; Gary tries to kiss pregnant Tina; Sinead and Chesney start dating; Carla catches Rob and Tracy out after they try to nick silk from Underworld.

Find out what happened earlier this year in January 2013, February 2013, March 2013, April 2013         

Check out all of our Coronation Street Blog posts from May 2013 and read the Corrie weekly updates here.
 
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Coronation Street review - April 2013

Here we go with our annual review of Coronation Street month-by-month, all wrapped up in a little reminder of what's gone on in Weatherfield this year.

April 2013

Sunita dies and Steve’s jacket button flies off at her funeral; Gary starts falling for pregnant Tina; Rita marches Dennis to the doc for drug awareness advice when she catches him eating a space cake; Faye moves in with Tim and he leaves her home alone;  Mary starts babysitting Dev’s kids; Sinead Tinker arrives; Rob starts work at Barlow's Bookies with Peter; Kev Webster heads to Germany and Deirdre bops around the living room to Uptown Girl on her wedding anniversary to Ken.

Find out what happened earlier this year in January 2013, February 2013, March 2013    

Check out all of our Coronation Street Blog posts from April 2013 and read the Corrie weekly updates here. 

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Coronation Street review - March 2013

Here we go with our annual review of Coronation Street month-by-month, all wrapped up in a little reminder of what's gone on in Weatherfield this year.

March 2013

The Rovers Return burns down killing Toni and putting Sunita in th'ospital; Kirsty crashes Tyrone’s trial: “He’s not a monster, I am!”, Doris Babbage turns up when Gloria’s fella Eric dies;  Gail moves out of the box room and in with Sally;  Katy and Ryan kiss in the kebab shop and she breaks poor Chesney's heart.

Find out what happened earlier this year in January 2013, February 2013  

Check out all of our Coronation Street Blog posts from March 2013 and read the Corrie weekly updates here. 

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Coronation Street review - February 2013

Here we go with our annual review of Coronation Street month-by-month, all wrapped up in a little reminder of what's gone on in Weatherfield this year.

February 2013

Lewis nicks Gail’s life savings  and leaves her a video nasty: “I’m afraid I’ve been rather a naughty boy.” Gail: “He’s broken my heart and ground it into the floor with the heel of his built-up shoe.”; Gail finds out the truth about Kylie sleeping with Nick; Sylvia returns from America and Roy takes her gambling to pay off her debts; Tyrone tries to do a runner with Ruby but ends up behind bars; Owen smashes Faye’s laptop in a rage;  Mandy’s shellshocked when Flash the tortoise dies;  Gloria turns up with her new fella Eric Babbage in tow. “He’s very big in vinyl floor coverings, huge in fact.” 
  
Find out what happened earlier this year in January 2013

Check out all of our Coronation Street Blog posts from February 2013 and read the Corrie weekly updates here.  

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Coronation Street review - January 2013

Here we go with our annual review of Coronation Street month-by-month, all wrapped up in a little reminder of what's gone on in Weatherfield this year. 


January 2013

Lewis cons Gail and over-orders olives; Rob cooks the books at Underworld; Fiz is poisoned by carbon monoxide; Sophie and Jenna kiss; Karl seduces Sunita; Nick and Leanne announce their wedding, again, to which Gail yells, quite rightly: “It’s too soon, it’s too stupid and it’s a complete farce!”; Kylie finds out that she’s pregnant;  Kirsty blames Tyrone for pushing her down the stairs after their wedding falls apart; Tim arrives after Faye finds him online.

Corrie characters mentioned in January 2013 we still want to meet - Nobby and Nolene, a couple Carla knows who sell cheap pants on the market.

Check out all of our Coronation Street Blog posts from January 2013 and read the Corrie weekly updates here.

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