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Biography: From waiter to winning writer
1949: Born in Liverpool.
1960: Won a scholarship to St Francis Xavier's grammar school.
1965-1979: Left at 16 to become a waiter and bus conductor.
1968: Met his wife, Elaine, while working in a Lake District hotel.
1979: Trained to be a teacher.
1983-89: Brookside scriptwriter.
1993: Created the multi-award-winning serial drama Cracker.
1994: Wrote Priest, starring Linus Roache as a homosexual priest.
1996: Bafta-winning Hillsborough told the story of the disaster that left 96 Liverpool fans dead.
1996: Co-wrote Go Now, starring Robert Carlyle.
1997-99: Bafta-nominated serial The Lakes followed the lives of hotel workers in the Lake District.
1999: Wrote the Bafta-nominated docu-drama Dockers.
2001: Liam, directed by Stephen Frears
2002: Channel 4 film, Sunday, starring Christopher Ecclestone.
2004: Gunpowder, Treason and Plot, about Mary, Queen of Scots.
2006: The Street and the return of Cracker for a one-off episode.
2007: The Cotton King.
Source:
The Independent
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