Over the years, Byker Grove dealt with a whole range of issues from terminal cancer to a character famously struggling with sexuality and another being killed in a brutal hit and run. READ MORE ...

“Already talking characters and storylines has us all ... to see what the new team will bring.” Donnelly added: “Byker Grove will always be very special to us as the show which gave us ...

Related: Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway airs series first "It's very very early days but we are developing it, looking at storylines, looking at characters ... time, Byker Grove is opening ...

Byker Grove, which ran from 1989 to 2006 ... adept at giving voice to some of Corrie's classic fearless female characters, from Ena to Elsie, from Bet to Liz. "If you watched Corrie growing ...