Daily Mirror

None can be dearer than Jack&Vera.. ..but this lot come close

Television’s leading double acts to rival the Corrie couple

- BY RACHAEL BLETCHLY Chief Feature Writer rachael.bletchly@mirror.co.uk

THEIR marriage was rockier than the Wetherfiel­d cobbles, yet Jack and Vera Duckworth were part of our lives.

They screamed at each other in the Rovers Return and The Kabin – and fought like cat and dog in their stone-clad terrace.

But the warring Duckworths, played by Liz Dawn and Bill Tarmey, always made it up.

Liz’s death, at 77, has evoked many memories of Britain’s bestloved soap couple, who were parted when Bill died in 2012.

But it also got us reminiscin­g about the other great TV couples of our times. Here are some of our favourites...

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