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THE writing was on the wall last night for Britain's most famous stone cladding - two decades after Jack and Vera Duckworth stuck it up.

The gaudy beige and blue facade on the Coronation Street terraced home they later flogged is to be scraped off.

The bombshell comes 21 years after the Duckworths - played by Bill Tarmey and Liz Dawn, mistakenly thought the cladding would make them the envy of the street. They grandly named their two-up two-down The Old Rectory and lived in the house until Vera died of heart failure in 2008.

It is thought the decision to remove the notorious cladding - which even graces the ITV1 soap's opening credits - would have house-proud Vera spinning in her grave.

New residents Molly and Tyrone Dobbs wanted to rip the cladding off when they bought the house two years ago, but decided it was too expensive to remove.

However, Eileen Grimshaw will buy the property later this year, insisting on a discount off the price so she can do away with it.

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