List of Coronation Street characters introduced in 2002
Archie compliments Audrey on her hairdressing skills in The Rovers, unaware that Ken's son Peter Barlow (Chris Gascoyne) is watching.Blanche overhears Maxine Peacock (Tracy Shaw) and Maria Sutherland (Samia Ghadie) in The Rovers gossiping about Audrey and Archie disappearing together.Blanche sees her letter printed in the problem page of the Gazette, unaware that Ken has written the reply telling her to move on and forget Archie.In August 2009, during a charity fete that Claire has organised, Joshua complains that his throat is sore and collapses in front of Janice Battersby (Vicky Entwistle); he has swallowed a bee.[3] Aidan was a pupil at Weatherfield Comprehensive School, who made life difficult for his teacher Ken Barlow (William Roache).In revenge, Joe is infuriated when the factory girls discover that he has been in prison, thanks to Dev making it public knowledge, attempting to split him and Geena up.When Mike points out that there are no buyers to purchase the stock that Joe has retrieved, he cons Naveen by tricking him into buying the knicker order originally meant for him and makes him pay cash.Joe and an ex-con friend, Frank Marsden (Martin Walsh), burgle the factory so that Mike will never know that no stock from Artrec was delivered.To Joe's horror, Karen gives Mike a list of every detail pertaining to Artrec that he requested and tells him that she has transferred all the money they stole from him back into his account.To avoid being a laughing stock in the rag trade, Mike agrees not to call the police but tells Joe he never wants to set eyes on him again.Lillian thinks The Rovers is a come-down after having worked in the Xanadu Cocktail Bar of the Majestic Hotel in Cleethorpes and then the Golf Club, where Mike Baldwin (Johnny Briggs) plays.With staff morale reaching an all-time low and the arrival of Lillian's daughter Danielle (Kelly Wenham), Geena Gregory (Jennifer James) and Shelley threaten to leave, much to Fred's distress.In his duration on the show the character has been at the centre of several romances including relationships with Sunita Alahan (Shobna Gulati), Tracy Barlow (Kate Ford) and Michelle Connor (Kym Marsh).He placed a large order of five thousand pairs of garments, which worked the factory employees very hard, however the delivery date was reached successfully.However, Naveen's cheque bounces, news that Mike takes calmly despite putting the future of Underworld on the line, but asks Dev, who is his trusted friend, to help him sort out what the issue was.Mike's deputy, Joe Carter (Jonathan Wrather) took the news far more personally due to his conflict with Dev over his relationship with Geena Gregory (Jennifer James) and how he and Naveen left him out of discussions regarding the deal in the first place.Although Naveen considered Joe a crook, he was also on the wrong side of the law as it was revealed in April 2004 when he dumped several thousand pounds' worth of Rolex watches on Dev when police investigations came too close to him.Dev was more than happy to help Naveen because he was family, but his fiancée, Maya Sharma (Sasha Behar) was less eager to help and hid the watches in Cornflake packets so the police didn't find them when they visited the corner shop.He clashed with Frankie Baldwin (Debra Stephenson) when her husband Danny took over as a shareholder in Underworld, she teased him and labeled him 'Half Mast' referring to his surname.Charlotte Morris, played by Joanne Zorian, was the sister-in-law of Richard Hillman (Brian Capron) - a financial advisor who previously married her best-friend Patricia (Annabelle Apsion).This soon leads to Charlotte requesting that Richard and his new wife, Gail Platt (Helen Worth), invite her to their house for dinner in order to clear up the matter with Patricia.Whilst in Weatherfield, he lived at number 14a and had a relationship with Janice Battersby (Vicky Entwistle), causing a rivalry with her ex-husband Les (Bruce Jones).On one occasion, he stopped Les after he drove through a red light and was provoked into fighting him in front of fellow officer Emma Watts (Angela Lonsdale).Les was then arrested for assaulting a police officer and served a three-month prison sentence after Emma backed up Mick's fraudulent statement.Tommy, his wife Angela (Kathryn Hunt), and their children Katy (Lucy-Jo Hudson) and Craig (Richard Fleeshman) first came to the street as the new tenants of Number 6 and using the surname "Nelson".The quartet begin causing trouble for Norris Cole (Malcolm Hebden) and Rita Sullivan (Barbara Knox) by kicking their football against the garage doors.Soon, the pair decide to have sex and sleep together despite being underage and Keith and his girlfriend Audrey Roberts (Sue Nicholls) catch Rosie trying to sneak out of the house the morning afterwards.In early summer, Craig is devastated when Keith has an angina attack, and even more upset when builder Charlie Stubbs (Bill Ward) is evicting them from their house.Rosie is angered that her mother and sister knew about it all along, and after seeing how upset she is, Craig decides to stay with the Websters and bids Keith a farewell.Patrick frequently serves as a comic foil for Les Battersby (Bruce Jones) and boss Steve McDonald (Simon Gregson).