Brookside Remembered

  It’s seven years this week since Brookside Close was facing its on-screen demolition and Jimmy Corkhill ‘closed’ the cul-de-sac for the final time. However the fans of the soap have not forgotten the series as it marks its 28th anniversary today, as Lee Brady of the leading fansite for the show explains in this special article.       […]

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Vince Earl Fights Back From Illness

As we reported in September, former Brookside star Vince Earl [pictured far left with the rest of the ‘Dixon family’] had been battling Goodpastures Syndrome, but as the soap reaches its 28th anniversary its good news we can report on the 66-year-old actor. He arrived as mobile shop owner Ron Dixon on the Brookside Close in 1990 and soon had […]

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Danny Baker Vows To Beat Cancer

TV Presenter and Radio DJ Danny Baker has told his fans he ‘will beat’ the Cancer that has seen him take time off from presenting duties at BBC Radio 5 Live. Baker became a regular on television in the early 1980s after a successful stint in print journalism. He joined London Weekend Television first in the ‘Youth Department’ before becoming […]

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