Salford -born TV writer who became Coronation Street 's most prolific and longest serving writers has died, aged 87. Adele Rose was the author of almost 460 episodes of Corrie between 1961 and 1998 - and was the soap’s only female writer in its early years.Adele was considered by many fans to be the show's best, well-know for writing particularly strong and emotive parts for female actors.Her husband, Peter Chadwick, has now paid tribute to his “warm and funny” partner of more than 40 years after she died from pneumonia on December 28.Born in Salford, she originally worked at Granada Television as a secretary, and was encouraged to submit a sample script for Coronation Street by Jack Rosenthal.Peter said: “She rang the producer and said,.
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