Coronation Street creator Tony Warren has died aged 79.
The man who brought to life television’s longest-running soap opera passed away on Monday night after a short illness.
Warren created the ITV soap in 1960 – when he was just 24 – as a gritty drama based in the fictional district of Weatherfield in Greater Manchester.
Despite initial misgivings by the executives who commissioned it, it grew from an initial seven episodes to become one of television’s best-loved shows.
He went on to write the first 13 episodes of the long-running soap.
