The Grant family was one of the first fictional clans to step onto Brookside when the soap first aired on Channel 4 in 1982. The much-loved drama quickly became an '80s and '90s classic as it told ...

Merseyside is once again gripped by Brookside fever after the first batch ... many of which included the Grant family, consisting of mum and dad Bobby and Sheila, daughter Karen and sons Barry ...

In 2020, Ricky and his Royle Family co-star Ralf Little also ... ever episode at the Florrie in Dingle and returned to Brookside as Bobby Grant ahead of the Eurovision Song Contest 2023.

Ricky Tomlinson, who played Bobby Grant, was part of the Grant family that featured in the first-ever episode of Brookside. They moved from a council estate to number five, their new home on ...

Ricky Tomlinson ’s part as Brookside’s Bobby Grant has since been outshined by the hopeless Jim Royle in The Royle Family. He has also starred in a number of films including Mike Bassett ...

As Sheila Grant, Sue played out some of ... She starred as Barbara Royle, alongside her former Brookside husband, Ricky Tomlinson, in The Royle Family, and has appeared in Waking The Dead, Downton ...

This storyline included poignant moments from Sheila's family, too ... The rape of Sheila Grant was a landmark moment – not just in Brookside, but in British TV itself.

He said: "I organised a trip to the panto for one of the girls and her family. The other ... in bringing this prosecution.” Grant played cabbie Mick on Brookside from 1989 to 2001.

A FORMER Brookside star has admitted running two schoolgirls over in a horror crash. The 12-year-old girls were crossing the road in Wallasey, Merseyside, when Louis Emerick Grant ploughed into them.

Brookside, the Channel 4 soap opera, is considered a classic British TV show that significantly contributed to Liverpool's prominence. For many years, the soap was a regular feature on our ...