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Now, of course, all of us know about the momentous events that are happening on Friday 1 October, as Part 3 of the DDA finally comes into force. But seeing as how TV soaps rarely reflect real life - and continue to feature few, if any, disabled people - you wouldn't expect it to come up in the scripts of, say, Coronation Street, would you?

Wrong.

According to one of Crippled Monkey's colleagues in the office, an episode of Corrie on Monday 13 September featured a character called Jamie Baldwin threatening to 'grass up' a local shopkeeper called Dev Alahan because his shop doesn't meet the new disability access requirements.

So is this true? Did it really happen? Has disability access really made the soaps? Do drop me a line at ouch@bbc.co.uk if you know more about this. I don't watch the soaps, y'see - more of a nature documentaries monkey myself.