Farewell chuck: Tributes to soap ‘matriarch’

Coronation Street actor Michael Le Vell has paid tribute to former co-star Liz Dawn, describing her as the “matriarch” of the soap.

Le Vell, who has been a long-standing member of the ITV soap, playing Kevin Webster, added that she was a “mother figure who helped guide us through the show. She did that for me.”

The actor said: “For anyone young who joined the show, Liz was the matriarch.