It has been more than 40 years since Brookside first appeared on our television screens. The Channel 4 soap followed the lives of people living on an estate on the outskirts of Liverpool.

Ricky Tomlinson is better known for his role in sitcom The Royle Family (Picture: Channel 4) Something of a Brookside stalwart, Ricky Tomlinson played the role of Bobby Grant from the very first ...

Here's what happened to some of the show's biggest stars after Brookside came to an end. Ricky Tomlinson became a well-known comedian and went on to star in The Royle Family and a number of films ...

A Brookside actor has pleaded guilty to seriously injuring two girls by careless/inconsiderate driving. Louis Emerick Grant, who played Mick Johnson in the Liverpool based soap, is accused of ...

Former Brookside star Claire Sweeney has made an ... ‘To millions he was and very much still is remembered as ‘Jimmy’, to family and friends he was ‘Dino’, read a statement from Hamilton ...

Aged 85, the actor and musician - best known as Jim in beloved sitcom The Royle Family, Bobby Grant in Brookside and the film Mike Bassett: England Manager - is relishing his role in Irish Annie's ...