It's now been 10 years since Tim Metcalfe arrived on the cobbles as he reunited with his daughter Faye Windass. The ITV soap character, played by Joe Duttine, made his first appearance in Weatherfield after being contacted by his then-10-year-old daughter.
Curious about the father she'd never known, and bearing no malice towards him for his absence, Faye reached out and organised a meeting with Tim behind her adoptive parents' back.
A month later, Tim was laid off from the building site where he worked and went after a labouring job in Kent, to Faye's dismay.
But, at her recommendation, he applied for a labouring job with Jason Grimshaw instead and was taken on right away. Try MEN Premium for FREE by clicking here for no ads, fun puzzles and brilliant new features And, two months after that, Dev Alahan let him rent the Corner Shop flat, despite Anna Windass, Faye's adoptive mum, asking Dev not to rent it to him.
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