It would be hard to imagine Weatherfield without Fiz Stape - or Fiz Brown as she was when she arrived on the cobbles 21 years ago. She made her first appearance in the soap as a feisty teen fostered by Roy and Hayley Cropper after being neglected by her mother, Cilla Brown.
However, she spent most of the first decade on the famous street living with Maria Sutherland, now Maria Windass, at 2a Coronation Street, during which time she had relationships with Tyrone Dobbs and Maria's brother Kirk.
But it may come as more of a surprise that the Underworld machinist and antiques dealer, played by Bury actress Jennie McAlpine, was initially only meant to appear for five episodes but was quickly made a permanent character.
