Andy Burnham said Sir Keir Starmer will not “bulldoze” local government if he wins the General Election, after telling a Glastonbury crowd he will continue to “assert” Manchester’s devolved status.
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Ryan Thomas, who played builder Jason Grimshaw in Coronation Street for 16 years before leaving the soap in 2016, returned to his former work place in Manchester city centre last week. The 40 year old actor, who won the latest series of Dancing on Ice at the beginning of this year, returned to the Old Granada Studios in the Castlefield area of Manchester for a friend’s 70th birthday, unaware beforehand that the party venue was located on the site where Coronation Street used to be filmed.
The long-running soap was filmed at Granada Studios for 53 years before the show relocated to a purpose built location in Trafford in 2014.
The old studios briefly became a tourist attraction for Corrie fans, but then the area was redeveloped, so Ryan was surprised when he arrived at his friend’s celebration to discover it was where he used to work on the soap. He posted on Instagram: “I got invited to a friends 70th in Manchester last week I had no idea it was going to be in the old medical centre of the original coronation street.
This is where the most important time of my life all started.
Makes me emotional coming back here.” “I would never be where I was today without this magical place growing up.” He also featured another photo of him pointing at a glass structure, which he captioned “No11 Coronation Street,” which is the Grimshaws’ home address.
The photo also showed a tower block. “Top of this building is where I did my audition for jason… now the new soho house in Manchester,” he added.
While Ryan’s character Jason has left the soap for a new life in Thailand, he is still mentioned on the cobbles, with Jason’s mum Eileen recently visiting her son there after an accident on his moped landed him in hospital. Eileen’s storyline was
.Andy Burnham said Sir Keir Starmer will not “bulldoze” local government if he wins the General Election, after telling a Glastonbury crowd he will continue to “assert” Manchester’s devolved status.
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