News today is that Maureen Lipman is returning to Coronation Street. This time, she'll play Tyrone's battleaxe gran.  Ah, the B...

Corrie  operates in archetypes, and has done for nearly fifty years.  Liz McDonald has a lot in common with Elsie Tanner; ideas above her ...

Coronation Street producer Kate Oates has repeated her desire to get a battleaxe into the soap. It's something that she's said ...

Coronation Street's battleaxes are old women, right? Preferably wearing a hairnet and wielding an acid tongue?  Well, not any more. ...

What the world needs now is a feisty old bag who says what she means and means what she says. Forget Angela, Hillary and ... err, Theresa....

A true battleaxe must be no younger than late middle age. She must be forceful, even fearsome. She must speak her mind and not be in any...

  Coronation Street has always had a battleaxe. From Ena Sharples to Blanche Hunt, the soap battleaxe is a soap staple and Corrie has ha...

In another landslide victory, Blanche Hunt has beaten the competition and has been crowned as the best Corrie battleaxe by Coronation Stree...

If you haven't already, you can still vote for your favourite Corrie battleaxe . The poll closes on Monday, 22nd April . Who do...

It could be said that Coronation Street provided the foundations for every archetype in British soap. And here we’ve got one of them – the ...