Warburton, the bread people and sponsors of Corrie's 50th anniversary have made the Rovers Return out of bread, as you do. The model was unveiled by onscreen couple Jane Danson and Chris Gasgoyne (Leanne Battersby and Peter Barlow) as they loafed around Manchester's Trafford Centre today.

Artist Lennie Payne - who has been working with bread for over ten years - explained: "This is the biggest project I've ever undertaken and it's been great fun! The work has been extremely intricate - I've even toasted each slice of bread to just the right colour to imitate those infamous red bricks of the Rover's Return!"

Whatever next?The Kabin made out of crisps or the factory made out of matchsticks maybe.


Via STV

Always wanted a Corrie tea cosy? Grannies Inc. has teamed up with energy company npower to produce a range of cosies designed to encourage our great nation to make a pot of tea rather than mugs.

The idea - of course - is to reduce the number of times we boil our kettles and hence the amount of household energy we use.

Themed to some of our favourite TV shows, various designs are available. Just pop one of these over your pot and do a little something for the environment while enjoying a cup of the good stuff.

The 'Lancashire Hot Pot' Coronation Street cosy is available online at granniesinc.co.uk/cosies.htm for £45, or you can download patterns to knit it yourself.

Here at Corrieblog, we've been lucky enough to secure an exciting opportunity for our readers. Kate Anthony - better known to viewers as Auntie Pam Hobsworth - is giving us the chance to have a Q&A session with her, to ask her anything we'd like to know!

I'd like to invite you to submit any questions you'd like to ask Kate about her role as Pam, her time on the Street, or anything else about her life and acting career. You can email me your questions, and try to get them in by Tuesday 21 July.

Hope you will make the most of this great opportunity to interact with a star of Corrie, and here's hoping this may be the first of many Q&As!

A growing passion of mine over the last couple of years has been collecting autographed photocards from a variety of famous faces. So, sitting bored one grey afternoon in January, I decided to further my collection by opening up to the possibility of collecting autographs from the cast of Coronation Street.

After some light research as to how to go about this, I found the process relatively simple. To receive a signed cast card of a Corrie actor and actress, you simply had to write to the star you wanted requesting an autograph and pop it in the post, along with a SAE. I thought I would give this a go to see if I had any luck, and so randomly selected Gray O'Brien - Tony Gordon - to be my first shot.

A mere ten days later and - hurrah! - success! A familiar envelope dropped through my letterbox containing a photocard of Gray, personalised for me. And so the pen came out once more, and over the next few weeks and months I began writing to each of the 60+ cast members.

Our competition to win tickets to a screening of three archive live episodes of Coronation Street at the BFI is now closed. The winner is Felicity Awdry, who correctly answered:
Who wrote the first episode of Coronation Street? (Tony Warren)
Which royal appeared in the 40th anniversary episode? (Prince Charles)
And who was landlady of the Rovers at the time? (Natalie Barnes).

Thanks to all who entered. Tickets are still available for the event on 24 February - more details here.

Here's your chance to see some classic episodes of Coronation Street on the big screen in the plush surroundings of London's BFI.

On 24 February they'll be screening two episodes from 1961 which were transmitted live. This will be followed by the episode from 2000 in which Corrie was transmitted live again to celebrate its 40th anniversary. More details here.

The BFI is generously offering a pair of tickets for this event.

This competition is now closed.

To "celebrate" (ie promote) the new series of The Murdoch Mysteries, the Alibi channel is offering the chance for viewers to attend a private preview screening in London. Former Coronation Street star Thomas Craig (previously Corrie's Tommy Harris), who stars in the show, will host the screening and winners will have the chance to chat to him about his new show, his old show, and anything else that springs to mind. And, if that wasn't incentive enough, there'll be champagne.

Pop over to the Alibi website for more details.

Don't despair if Santa doesn't bring you the much-craved Corrie spin-off DVD Out of Africa. You can have mine! No, I'm joking. Santa knows me better than to bother trying to struggle down my chimney with any recorded media featuring Cilla Battersby-Brown in his sack.

But if you would like to get your hands on a copy, click yourself over to the MEN's website where they are giving away ten copies in a competition that's so scarily easy even Kirk could probably get the answer (though it's cheating a bit in his case considering he's in it).

See a preview video

Our close personal friends over at Digital Spy have been schmoozing the stars yet again, and have acquired six of those ultra-creepy Tony Gordon masks - personally signed by Tony Gordon himself, Gray O'Brien. You can win one of these items by entering a scarily simple competition here.

The competition closes on 22 October, which means that the lucky winners will probably be in possession of their prize well in time for Halloween. Just the thing for trick or treating!

If you don't win, you can still create your own Tony face. Click here for a downloadable one.

Photo: Mark Campbell/Rex Features

You may have already seen the ad on television. Quality Street in Canada is holding a competition and they are giving away three trips to the UK including an exclusive visit to the Coronation Street studios. They're also giving away 120 Corrie trivia DVD games. They launched their campaign at a get together (aka a "ping") in Toronto last month but the contest didn't officially open until today. All the particulars of the contest and how to enter are on their website here. It's only open to Canadian residents. The contest runs from today until December 31.

Click through to read some of the rules.

This isn't strictly Corrie-related, but a competition is currently running to find Britain's biggest TV fan, and I reckon Coronation Street viewers are in with as much chance as anybody.

• Have you changed your job or lifestyle following a storyline on your favourite show? Maybe you've followed David Platt into the world of hairdressing... then back out again.


• Are your kids named after a well-known TV character? Maybe you have twins called Roy and Hayley, for example (please say you don't).


• Have you gone to extreme lengths to catch a glimpse of your favourite TV star in real life?


• Did you rearrange an important holiday or even your wedding so you could be in front of the telly for Sarah and Jason's wedding?


• Is your home decorated in the style of the Rovers Return?

If you can answer yes to any of the above, or can claim any other deranged, telly-based behaviour, you could win a giant plasma TV and a year's worth of Virgin Media's VIP services. Just pop an email to toptellyfan@ptarmiganpr.co.uk

Charity auction site Buy Once Give Twice is currently running a great auction. The winner and three friends will get a trip around the Coronation Street set, accompanied by none other than William Roache MBE, who will act as tour guide. There may also be a chance to meet other Corrie cast members and watch some filming.

The idea of Buy Once Give Twice is that people donate things they've already won in charity auctions to the site, so the charities benefit twice. Most of the proceeeds from this auction will go to the charity Time4Women.

All the details about how it works and how to bid are on the site here. The reserve price for the auction is £2,000, but it's a once in a lifetime chance, so get bidding!

Or, if you don't have that much money lying around, you could always bid for Cilla Battersby-Brown's poncho.

We recently told you about a great competition in partnership with Visual Networking experts, Cisco. All you have to do is show us a video that illustrates 'My Video Life'.

The overall winner will get £500 worth of vouchers for a shopping spree and the chance to spend a day in the studio with Cisco's experts to make another video - plus have Your Video Life featured on the Cisco consumer web site. There are also eight £50 vouchers from top AV retailer Dabs up for grabs, so you have a really good chance of nabbing one of the prizes.

The closing date has been extended to 19 May, so there's still time to get your entries in. For all the information about entering, click here.

Click the continue reading link to see a great example of the sort of thing you could try, and good luck!

You use your camera to shoot video. You use your phone to shoot video. You may even be capturing the world in high definition. Now's the time to get your footage working for you by entering our competition and scoring a great prize.

We have teamed up with Visual Networking experts, Cisco to offer shedloads of cool prizes and all you have to do is show us a video that illustrates 'My Video Life'.

The overall winner will get £500 worth of vouchers for a shopping spree and the chance to spend a day in the studio with Cisco's experts to make another video - plus have Your Video Life featured on the Cisco consumer web site.

There are also eight £50 vouchers from top AV retailer Dabs up for grabs, so you have a really good chance of nabbing one of the prizes.

Click the Continue Reading link to find out how to enter.

Do you get people tapping you on the shoulder asking for your autograph all he time because of your stunning resemblance to a Coronation Street star?

Are you a dead ringer for David, Deirdre or Dev? A lookalike for Leanne, Lauren or Liam? The spitting image of Sophie, Steve or Sally? Or bear a vague resemblance to Vernon?

If so, ITV.com is waiting to hear from you. They want Corrie lookalikes to email them with photographs, and the winners will be invited to appear on This Morning, where they will be judged by a member of the Coronation Street cast.

For terms and conditions click here.

Have a look at some of the Corrie lookalikes we've spotted

I bet you've always wanted the top tier of a wedding cake that features a little statue of Liz and Vernon Tomlin, resplendent in white suits and cowboy hats and a mini drumkit.

This surreal object (and piece of Coronation Street history) could be yours if you're the lucky winner of a competition on the ITV.com website. Click here to enter.

Read more: Jane Danson's wedding cake
Liz and Vernon's wedding outfits
How Corrie got the look for Sarah and Jason's wedding

Fans of Coronation Street in Canada have a chance to win a trip for two to the Corrie set at Granada Studios, Manchester! You'll need to watch The Hour this week, from January 28th to 30th where host George Stroumboulopolis will ask a Corrie trivia question each night. To enter, you will answer the question via the website's official entry form. The answers must all be in by January 30, 2008. You have to be a legal resident of Canada or it's territories and be over the age of majority in that province/territory. You won't have to wait long, they will draw the winner and announce it on The Hour on Thursday, January 31. Prize includes airfare, accomodations (three nights), The trip must take place starting February 10, 2008 so that's a quick turnaround time. Make sure your passport is at the ready! Full contest rules and details are here.

Like it or not, these days mobile phones can be seen as so much more than just communication devices. And like all things, there's a lot of choice out there. How do you decide what kind of phone to go for? Design? Ease of use? Or is price the most important factor?

We're offering you the chance to win one of five 4 GB Apple iPod Nano Videos just for completing a survey on this very subject.

It'll take about five minutes of your time and everyone who enters their details at the end will be entered into the prize draw. The closing date for entry to the draw is 31st January.

Take the survey here

Terms and conditions apply - see them over the page.