At 4am last Saturday morning, while most of us were still tucked up in bed, Brian Altman was making his latest journey to the most important street in the world to him.
For Brian is a Coronation Street superfan - and he boarded the earliest train possible from his home in Glasgow to Manchester to be sure he was one of the first fans on the cobbles for the return of public tours at the set for the first time in two years.
Proudly wearing his "Free the Weatherfield One" T-shirt - a nod to one of the ITV soap 's most famous storylines when Deirdre Rachid was imprisoned - Brian is certainly no stranger to the soap's famous set.
For he also makes regular pilgrimages back here to wait outside the studio gates in a bid to meet the stars of the show. There, he'll patiently wait for hours in the hope that one of the cast members will stop their car on the way in or out of the set, or maybe stop off when they nip out for their lunch.
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