Flaming Nora

I'm editor of the Coronation Street Blog , a fan website which attracts almost half a million (yes, that's half a million! ) Corrie fans per month. Find out what makes the website so special with celebrity bloggers, exclusive interviews and competitions - read all about it here . The Coronation Street Blog has been praised by The Guardian as Marvellous and twice by the Manchester Evening News as Excellent and Essential reading for Street fans.  I also own the original, first ever Coronation Street fan website www.corrie.net I am the author of A Perfect Duet - the diary of Roy and Hayley Cropper , an unofficial Coronation Street companion book. The book was released in May 2014 by FBS Publishing and has a foreword by actress Julie Hesmondhalgh, who played Hayley Cropper in Coronation Street. I am also the author of Norman Bates with a Briefcase - the Richard Hillman Story, an unofficial Coronation Street companion book. The book has a foreword by a...

As regular readers will know, I blog about this, that and Coronation Street. Way back in 1995 I started writing Coronation Street Weekly Updates for a fan group online. Word of the updates spread and at its peak, there were 6,000 email subscribers to the updates until the email server collapsed under the strain of the weight and the group moved to the more stable platform of Yahoogroups. The updates featured on all of the Coronation Street fan sites and garnered some great praise over the years. They even have their own website. Fast forward 10 years to 2005 when commercial blogging company Shiny Media launched Corrieblog. Ashley Norris, one of their three Directors at the time, asked me to be editor of this new Coronation Street blog, based on the witty, weekly Corrie updates I’d been writing for 10 years. I edited and wrote for Shiny Media's Corrieblog for two years, all the time continuing to write my Coronation Street Weekly Updates for Corrie fan sites and the email subsc...

The latest monthly Coronation Street podcast has gone live over at The Soap Show. It’s called Word on the Street, involves a chat about the latest storylines, reveals some upcoming spoilers and this month features a chat all about Sally Webster. You can have a listen to it here if you like.

I have now podded my latest cast. Yes, the monthly Coronation Street podcast has gone live over at The Soap Show. It’s called Word on the Street, involves a chat about the latest storylines and reveals some upcoming spoilers. You can have a listen to it here .

As well as being a Corrie fan and all round good blogger here at Flaming Nora, I’m also writing for women’s blog The Dolly Mix . Corrie fans might like to have a look at my latest musings on the Women of Coronation Street and why I find them compelling viewing. You can have a look at it here , but only if you’d like to.

And now, the anti-dote to the Slebs rant I had earlier. I greatly admire Eileen Derbyshire who plays Emily Bishop in Coronation Street . She deliberately chooses to keep out of the spotlight. It's a shame other 'soap stars' aren't so very brave.

Hugh 'n' Jemima are back together. Pete 'n' Kate are still in lurve. Why do I know this? What's it doing in my head? I deliberately avoid sleb mags and their comments on society's vermin who sluice along underneath everyday life. But slebs are in my head because I looked at an official news website today and saw a billboard for Theeny Stannart on the way home tonight. I don't want to know. I don't care. These people are nothing to me. Why should it be national news? Why inflict them on me? And on other people like me who simply don't care and who want to be left out of the pointlessness of it all?

The second of my Coronation Street podcasts has now gone live at The Soap Show . The Corrie podcast is called Word on the Street and you can sign up to receive the podcast automatically as it’s updated each month.

It's International Women's Day on Thursday 8 March and the people I write and edit the Coronation Street blog for ( Shiny Media ) are launching another new blog written exclusively for and by women. It's going to be a real little gem and I'm proud and happy to be included on the writing team. Ladies (and gentlemen, for you are allowed to read it too), I give you Dollymix .

Far be it for me to recommend you tune in to listen to my monthlies, but I've now podded my cast and am available for your listening pleasure each month at The Soap Show . And if you're a fan of Coronation Street, why not have a peek at Corrieblog , which I highly recommend (and edit).