Never let it be said Dame Maureen Lipman doesn’t suffer for her art. Along with many of us, she’s been crying buckets all week having had to have her dog put down.
Well, Cerberus, the greyhound belonging to Evelyn Plummer, the character she plays in Coronation Street. And, judging by the outpouring of grief on Twitter, the nation mourns with her.
Cerberus inadvertently ate an Eccles cake on the floor of Roy Cropper’s cafe and the currants triggered kidney failure. Evelyn had to take the agonising decision to put him out of his misery.
