History Heartwarming / CoronationStreet

* Ex-Army hardman Jim McDonald sticking up for the mild-mannered Roy and Hayley when a man starts shouting abuse and threatening them due to Hayley being transgender. Jim tells the man in no uncertain terms that Roy and Hayley are his friends and if you pick on them it won't end well and the man leaves without Jim even having to throw a punch. Jim then shows his rarely seen tender side by comforting the two of them. Having spent years of their lives feeling like outcasts, it's quite touching to see the high regard that even someone like Jim holds them in.

* Norris was being his usual pompous self trying to organise a book club - and forcing them all to read his favorite book. Emily finds her copy has a few pages missing, with Norris acting strangely evasive. She gets another copy and learns that the missing pages contained an armed robbery plot - which Norris was afraid would upset her. She thanks him for thinking of her.

* Ex-Army hardman Jim McDonald sticking up for the mild-mannered Roy and Hayley when a man starts shouting abuse and threatening them due to Hayley being transgender. Jim tells the man in no uncertain terms that Roy and Hayley are his friends and if you pick on them it won't end well and the man leaves without Jim even having to throw a punch. Having spent years of their lives feeling like outcasts, it's quite touching to see the high regard that even someone like Jim holds them in.

* Ex-Army hardman Jim McDonald sticking up for the mild-mannered Roy and Hayley when a man starts shouting abuse and threatening them due to Hayley being transgender. Jim tells the man in no uncertain terms that Roy and Hayley are his friends and if you pick on them it won't end well and the man leaves without Jim even having to throw a punch. Having spent years of their lives being outcasts, it's quite touching to see the high regard that even someone like Jim holds them in.
** Jim also makes sure Roy has a stag night after Roy initially appears reluctant, politely asking Hayley if him and the boys can 'borrow' Roy for the evening. When Jim lets the others know that Roy didn't have a stag night planned, such is their respect for Roy and Hayley, they all want to ensure Roy enjoys his last night of freedom.

** Jim also makes sure Roy has a stag night after Roy initially appears reluctant, politely asking Hayley if him and the boys can 'borrow' Roy for the evening. When Jim lets the oothers know that Roy didn't have a stag night planned, such is their respect for Roy and Hayley, they all want to ensure Roy enjoys his last night of freedom.

** Also his actions before his death are such, he paid to repair the roof of Emily Bishop's church, got Sally Webster tickets for the Opera which she always wanted and helped the Peacock's marriage.

* After Martha Longhurst died, her family allowed Ena Shaples and Minnie Caldwell to look at things they wanted to keep, they were talking about her sad life with an terrible unfaithful husband and an cold daughter that used her as a free babysitter. The two women find a recording done in Blackpool when she went without her husband and it reveals Martha had a romance with a man named Phil showing that their friend had a little fun in her life.

* Appearing in the Second Episode we are introduced to Esther Hayes, she works at the Town Hall, but despite being single and without children, she is a welcoming face for those that needed it, she helps Christine Hardman throughout her time on the street both with her ill mother and the money problems, babysat Lucille Hewitt while her father was working and helped get No 9 in order when the Cheveski's came[[note]] she never a main storyline like the other original cast members but she could have [[/note]]. She later moved away from the street but would return for special events.

* Appearing in the Second Episode we are introduced to Esther Hayes, she works at the Town Hall, but despite being single and without children, she is a welcoming face for those that needed it, she helps Christine Hardman throughout her time on the street both with her ill mother and the money problems, babysat Lucille Hewitt while her father was working and helped get No 9 in order when the Cheveski's came. She later moved away from the street but would return for special events.
** In a way it was fitting the character was so kind and heartwarming, she was played by Daphne Oxenford whose most famous for Listen with Mother a childhood Radio classic.

** In 1980 Ena's flat in the Community Centre was being refurbishment, so Elsie who had no-one in her house offered her a room until it was finished, Ena would cook and clean while Elsie worked, however despite the act of kindness and some sweet moments, Ena moved to St. Annes to a friend's house a week later saying that they would soon start fighting if