Rovers Return Inn Billy first appears in Coronation Street in January 1961, but takes over The Rovers Return in 1984 after his mother Annie retires and signs the pub over to him. It doesn't last long, though, and he leaves for good in 1984, after a series of run-ins with police due to the lock-ins held after hours. Arguably the most famous barmaid on "Coronation Street", Bet Lynch was in charge of The Rovers Return for a little over 10 years. In late 1984, the brewery, Newton & Ridley, unhappy with the way the pub was being run into the ground by Billy,
A Lesson Is Learned but the Damage Is Irreversible A Lesson Is Learned but the Damage Is Irreversible A Lesson Is Learned But The Damage Is Irreversible (ALILBTDII) was a webcomic drawn by David Hellman and written by Dale Beran. Ted Rall describes the comic as "explor[ing] the limits of pessimism and fatal consequence in a universe that would be difficult to imagine on the printed page." The comic was officially "on hiatus" from September 2006 to December 10, 2012, with the comic "I Name Thee Annihilator" ending the hiatus but ultimately being the penultimate entry in the series Dale and David are the primary characters, although they do