Rita Tanner (Barbara Knox) has not been seen on the ITV soap since Christmas Day, when she was one of the attendees at Gail Platt’s (Helen Worth) wedding to Jesse Chadwick (John Thomson).

Barbara Knox MBE is TV royalty, the Queen of Coronation Street, who in her remarkable 41 years on the cobbles as Rita Tanner, has had more fights, flings and rings on her finger than most in ...

Ladies and gentlemen, our final 60 For 60 could only ever have come from our Queen of the Cobbles, the magnificent Barbara Knox.A huge thank you to every one of you and please join us in wishing a ...