Coronation Street cast as you've never seen them before!

This wonderful poster of the Coronation Street cas as you've never seen them before has been created by talented artist Jo Blakeley.

Some of Jo's artwork is available on Redbubble - on t-shirts/cups and other paraphenalia. 
Check them out here. 

Plus, Jo draws bespoke characters to order as gifts.

Find out more about her work at her website, follow her on twitter and facebook.

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From Coronation Street to children's author

Dave Dutton is a man of many talents. He's also a man of many parts, 11 of them in fact. That's how many different roles Dave Dutton has played in Coronation Street (10 on TV and 1 on stage) - read all about them here.  And he's always hoping for another role too. Corrie? Oh, go on.

Dave has now branched out into writing. And along with talented artist Jo Blakeley they have created this wonderful children's book called Who Ate the Zookeeper?

Dave and Jo are now seeking a children's book publisher who can take the book to the next step and get it into the shops where it belongs.  Could you be that person?

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Last chance to enter! WIN! Rovers Return fridge magnets

Competition closes today - Sunday 23 February at 5pm

The wonderfully talented Pickled Jo has designed some brand new fridge magnets featuring the new-look Rovers Return, just for us here at the Coronation Street Blog.  The new-look Rovers, you'll notice, has two upstairs windows and we'll be seeing it soon on our screens as it's part of the new set that Corrie is now using to film on.

The new Rovers Return with two upstairs windows - see all our pics from our visit to the new set

We have 10 of these exclusive, wonderful fridge magnets to be won in a competition here on the Coronation Street Blog.  Overseas fans can enter! 

All you have to do to be in with a chance of winning one of these 10 fridge magnets is answer the following two questions correctly and email the answers to me at glenda.young@btinternet.com with the word ROVERS in your email subject line. 

Deadline for entries is Sunday 23rd February 2014 at 5pm.

Here are your questions, good luck!

1. Whose name or names are currently above the door at the Rovers Return on Coronation Street?
2. On Pickled Jo's website, which Coronation Street character has a pair of scissors in their hand?

Clue:
The answer to Question 1 can be found by clicking this link to view our pictures from our visit to the new set and following the link to the flickr page with all of our pictures on it.

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Love Coronation Street? Love gardening? Buy this!

These absolutely fantastic Coronation Street birdhouses are created by Jim Dileva in Canada, some of them using Pickled Jo (Jo Blakeley)'s Coronation Street caricatures

Check them out - and buy yourself one for Christmas at buildabirdhouse.ca.  Jim will ship these wonderful birdhouses to orders placed by fans in the UK.

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WIN! Coronation Street caricature fridge magnets

Competition closes today, Saturday 26 October at 12 noon.

We have 20 fabulous Coronation Street caricature fridge magnets designed by @pickledjo to be won in an exclusive competition here on the Coronation Street Blog. 

Check out Pickled Jo's ebay shop here and her website here.

Anticipating a lot of love for Hayley Cropper, we have 5 magnets with Hayley on them, one with Roy and Hayley and one with Roy.  The others feature Emily Bishop, Michelle Connor, Owen Armstrong, Tina McIntyre, Audrey Roberts, David and Kylie Platt, Peter Barlow, Ken and Deirdre Barlow, Bet Lynch, Elsie Tanner, Hilda Ogden, Jack Duckworth and Eileen Grimshaw.

To be in with a chance of winning one of these great Corrie charicature fridge magnets, all you have to do is....

...email me at glenda.young@btinternet.com with MAGNET in your email subject header and the correct answers to the two questions below. 

20 winners will be drawn at random from all correct entries received.  Overseas fans can enter this competition.  Entries from moneysavingsexpert, Loquax and all other competition entry websites will not be included.

Good luck!  Deadline for entries is Saturday 26 October 2013 at 2pm.

When you email in, please say which magnet you would prefer to win as your first choice and also list a second and third choice (incase you're drawn as a winner and your first and second choices have already been won by someone who has been drawn ahead of you).

Question 1: On Pickled Jo's website in the Corrie charicatures, what is Dev wearing on his head?

Question 2: On the Coronation Street Blog's Corrie Panto 2013 page, which Yorkshire town is Steve Huison starring in panto this year?

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Coronation Street Blog gets a twitter make-over @CoroStreetBlog

If you follow us on twitter @CoroStreetBlog, you'll already have spotted that our twitter icon has had a make-over.

Specially comissioned and exclusively designed for us, talented artist Pickled Jo has done a wonderful job on our twitter icon.

Pickled Jo has also updated our twitter header picture too.  Check out all her work at http://pickledjo.dunked.com and follow her on twitter @pickledjo

In a few weeks' time, we'll have an exclusive competition here on the Coronation Street Blog to win more of Pickled Jo's fab Corrie Caricature fridge magnets!

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Last chance to enter to WIN! Corrie-cature fridge magnets

Competition closes on Sunday 7 July at 12 noon.

We have some wonderful Corrie caricature magnets created by talented artist Pickled Jo, to be won in an exclusive competition here on the Coronation Street Blog.

There are 12 magnets to be won as shown above, one each for 12 lucky winners.

If you enter the competition, please state your first and second choice of magnet you would like to win and if you win, I'll do my best to send you the one you most want.

To be in with a chance to win one of these wonderful Corrie-cature magnets, all you have to do is email me at glenda.young@btinternet.com with PICKLED in your email subject line and the correct answers to the following questions.  The twelve winners will be drawn at random from all correct entries received to win one keyring each.

Overseas fans can enter this competition. Deadline for entries is Sunday July 7th at 12 noon.

Q1: On the Pickled Jo website, what colour wine is Peter Barlow raising a glass of - red or white?
Q2: On the Pickled Jo website, what musical instrument is Sylvia playing?

Entries from moneysavingsexpert.com, Loquax and all other competition entry websites will not be included.

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Winners announced in our Corrie-catures competition

We have these wonderful Corrie caricature fridge magnets created by talented artist Pickled Jo, to be won by in an exclusive competition here on the Coronation Street Blog.

Well done to ten lucky Coronation Street Blog readers who have each won one of Pickled Jo's Corrie-cature fridge magnets. Winners are as follows:

Allen de Young, Sue Leon (Canada), Katie North, Steve Beckwith, Maggie Mandzuk (Canada), David Finney, Heather Allen (Canada),  Janice Fraser (New Zealand), Gillian Massey and Marie Ferry.

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Pickled Jo's wonderful Corrie caricatures are used by some of the Corrie cast as their profile pics on twitter. Pickled Jo has also created the poster for the Fat Brenda stage show, in Manchester.

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Last chance to enter our Corrie-cature keyrings competition

If you haven't already entered our competition to win Corrie-cature keyrings by talented artist Pickled Jo, then it's your last chance today. 

We've been inundated with entries to this competition, it's proved very popular indeed and the keyrings are fab. 

The deadline for entries to this competition is today, Monday 12 December at 6pm.
Enter the competition here.

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Corrie caricature of the week, Elsie Tanner

These wonderful Corrie caricatures are created by talented artist Pickled Jo. Some of the Corrie cast even use their own caricatures for their profile pics on twitter, and I've long been a fan of her work here on the Coronation Street Blog.  Pickled Jo has even done the poster for the Fat Brenda stage show, starting in Harrogate, Yorkshire, in April 2012.

Today's Corrie caricature is a classic one - Elsie Tanner.

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Corrie caricature of the week, Marcus Dent

These caricatures are created by talented artist Pickled Jo. Some of the Corrie cast even use their own caricatures for their profile pics on twitter, and I've long been a fan of her work here on the Coronation Street Blog. 

Today's Corrie caricature is Marcus Dent, played by Charlie Condou.

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