The stars of Coronation Street have opened the soap's new Victoria Street set, which includes a tribute to the victims of the Manchester Arena bombing.
Actors Tina O'Brien (Sarah), Jack P Shepherd (David), Sue Nicholls (Audrey) and Lucy Fallon (Bethany) were on hand to cut the ribbon on Weatherfield's newest addition on Monday.
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The Platt family were joined by their co-stars at the celebrations, but the weather - typically - did them no favours.
Three years in the making, the set will have its debut on ITV and TV3 on Friday April 20.
Taking pride of place in Victoria Street's Urban Garden is a memorial bench in tribute to late Coronation Street fan Martyn Hett and the other victims of the Manchester Arena bombing of May 2017.
The inscription on the bench reads: "For Martyn and all those who lost their lives on the 22nd of May 2017. We stand together."
"I think that, especially because Martyn was a massive fan of the show, it's important for his family to have that tribute to him and all of the other victims and the survivors and everybody that was involved," said Corrie star Lucy Fallon.
"And just for Manchester in general."
Victoria Street is home to Weatherfield Police Station and Weatherfield North tram stop, a Costa Coffee and Co-Op shop and a tattoo parlour, Tattoo'll Do Nicely.
The three-storey Nutall's Brewery building looks like the perfect location for future Corrie cliffhangers.
There are also 7,000 cobbles from the show's old Quay Street site, which was Corrie's home from 1982 to 2013.
The soap's producer, Kate Oates, said: "The Victoria Street extension represents an exciting chapter in Corrie history: an amazing new stage, full of dramatic potential.
"Our amazingly talented design team have created everything from scratch - but it still manages to have the feeling of always having been there, just around the corner."
Coronation Street airs on TV3 and ITV on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
