The television writer Ann McManus, who has died aged 67 after suffering a cardiac arrest, was the key creator and writer behind the hit TV series Waterloo Road, and a co-founder of the multimillion-pound company Shed Productions.
She landed her first TV job as a scriptwriter on the soap Take the High Road in 1993, before graduating to Coronation Street (1996-98), while still working as a schoolteacher in Glasgow.
