Church cross row - Corrie producer Kim Crowther has her say

Remember the hoo-ha about Corrie crew apparently covering up a cross in the church during Molly and Tyrone's wedding? Despite ITV denying that it was done to avoid offending people, the story rumbles on, with "political correctness gone mad" headlines still popping up.

Corrie producer Kim Crowther and Executive Producer Kieran Roberts have taken the step of writing a letter to The Times which says, "After an extensive inquisition, we have determined that no one on the production team asked for a cross to be concealed or moved during filming for fear of causing offence to other religions." They say that the cross was covered up "during a couple of shots for technical reasons," and that conversations about this may have led to the Rev James Milnes, the church's vicar, "erroneously believing that we had obscured a cross during filming for reasons of religious sensitivity."

The idea that the cross needed to be covered for technical reasons was supported by a vicar who spoke on Radio 4's Today programme on the day this story first broke. She used to be a TV producer, and she said that, had she been working on the show, she would have covered the cross because the lights gleaming off the metal would have distracted the eye from Molly, Tyrone and the vicar, who were supposed to be the main focus of the shot.