The pioneering TV writer who created groundbreaking Tyneside teen soap Byker Grove has died, aged 87. Adele Rose was best known for being Coronation Street ’s most prolific and longest serving writer, as well as being the soap’s only female writer in its early years.
The author of almost 460 episodes of Corrie between 1961 and 1998, Adele was considered by many fans to be its best, and wrote particularly strong parts for female actors.
Chronicle Live reported that she became part of the North East’s cultural landscape in 1989, when she was approached by TV executive Andrea Wonfor to do a one-off drama about a youth club.
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