Nottinghamshire has a mighty track record of famous faces on our TV screens. Amongst them are the soap stars who appear in hard-hitting story lines every week. Cheating, scamming and getting caught up in life-changing disasters is all in a day's work for them.
There are plenty of laughs too. Who can forget Sherrie Hewson's infamous waterbed scene in Corrie when she starred as Maureen Holdsworth alongside Ken Morley? The Beeston-born actress also played Lesley Meredith in Emmerdale from 2004 and 2006.
Over the border Ilkeston's William Roache is soap royalty, playing Ken Barlow on the cobbles since its first episode in December 1960. The acting legend, who turns 91 later this month, is listed in the Guinness World Records as the longest-serving living television actor in a continuous role.
