STARS from Coronation Street were in town for the first day of the Bolton Food and Drink Festival.

Sam Aston, who plays Chesney Brown, and Dolly-Rose Campbell, starring as his on-screen partner Gemma Winter, grabbed a slice of the action before heading to the cobbles to shoot some scenes.

Referencing his character, who has five children, Sam said:"We’re always up for a bit of food and drink, we’ve got five kids so we’re always skint – hopefully we can get a few freebies. I’m not too fussy.

"We’re here for the festival today mainly the food and drink part, but it's our first time here and obviously it’s a yearly thing it would be nice to come back again and see other parts of it.

"I think we’ll be in a food coma later on.

"We don’t get too much of a chance to do things like this and I think recently with the times, everything that’s been going on – there’s not been much stuff like this happening – so it’s nice."

Dolly added: "We’re here just for a few hours today as we’ve got to go to work later for some filming.

"It’s really exciting to be here today.

"I'm sure it's going to be amazing."

Asked whether Weatherfield should have it’s own food and drink festival, Dolly-Rose responded: "Have we ever had a food festival? I don’t think we have. We had a Christmas market."

Sam added: “Well it would be the Rovers Return, oh we’ve Speed Daal, and I work in a kebab shop.

“Roy’s Rolls too, so maybe there’s enough options.

“I think Betty’s hotpot would be in the top ten definitely.”