List of Coronation Street characters introduced in 1966
Jackie Marsh is a reporter from the local paper who run a story sympathising with David Barlow's controversial sacking from the Weatherfield football club.When Minnie tells him she can not pay up, Fred adds interest to the loan and threatens legal action, but she is rescued just in time when her old lodger Jed Stone turns up and cons him out of his own money to repay the debt.The news puts Emily in a difficult position as she had only a week earlier accepted a job working at a friend's shop in Majorca, Joan tells her that if she does not take him on, their father will have to go into a care home.Brenda Riley is an old flame of Jim Mount's who briefly takes over as relief manager of the Rovers Return when Jack and Annie Walker go on holiday.Brenda faces the wrath of Hilda Ogden upon her return to work as well, when she decides not to release Clara Midgeley from the cleaners job until she knows Annie's wishes.