Coronation Street reveals future of Rovers Return with link to Stephen's 'legacy' and a 'ticking bomb'
30.10.2023 - 21:13
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Coronation Street has confirmed the future of the Rovers Return revealing that it will reopen before the year is out - but with a 'ticking time bomb' buried beneath its grand return. Fans have been left wondering what was happening with the local watering hole after Jenny Connor was forced to sell.
The ITV soap's iconic boozer has been involved in a bit of a rollercoaster ride in the last few months as the cost of living crisis finally bit the Weatherfield institution. Landlady Jenny ended up handing over the Rovers to Newton and Ridley, the brewery whose name has been associated with the pub since the beginning.
All seemed well with Jenny able to continue running the pub with the help of her staff - Daisy Midgeley, Sean Tully, Glenda Shuttleworth and Gemma Winter-Brown. However, the jubilation didn't last long as they discovered Newton and Ridley were being sold to another company, Waterford Incorporated.
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Later, Waterford's manager arrived to break the news that they were closing the Rovers for an extensive refurbishment and that the staff's contracts had terminated with immediate effect, leaving Jenny and the staff in a spin. With no legal way of changing Waterfird's minds, the group, full of rage, thought they might as well go out with a bang before the place was boarded up for the foreseeable future.
Jenny later tried to re-apply for her job with Waterford's who were quick to turn her away and threatened her with legal action if she and her staff were ever to step foot in the pub again. She didn't listen, however, as she ended up the