Emmerdale News

It's Grim Up North started life as a pilot project that was uploaded to creators Ed Waugh and Trevor Wood's website in the summer.

As Stella's glamorous, pampered daughter Eva Price in Coronation Street, we're used to seeing Catherine Tyldesley dressed to the nines.

Lottie Goodwin, a resident at the Morris Feinmann care home in south Manchester, retired from the screen only last year, having appeared in Coronation Street, Brookside, Hollyoaks and Darling Buds of May among other popular series.

STAR ROLE: Lottie at her 100th birthday party with Emmerdale star Chris Chittell, who plays Eric Pollard in the soap More than 50 of Lottie's family gathered with her friends at her care home in Didsbury, Manchester, to celebrate, with relatives travelling thousands of miles from America, Canada and Spain to see her.

A birth, a death and everything in between - including arson, wife-beating and being in prison, to name but a few 'highlights' of the last 15 years.