[2] Her parents were Clara (née Simons) and Sydney Rose, who was a manager at Great Universal Stores, the family's mail-order business.
Adele initially worked as a secretary at Granada Television in the promotions department, which prepared links for the station's continuity announcers to read.
[1] ITV's John Whiston credits her with writing some of the show's "most memorable episodes", describing her as "particularly adept at giving voice to some of Corrie's classic fearless female characters".
"[6] Executive producer Brian Park dropped her from the programme's contributors in 1998; Granada gave her a farewell boardroom dinner.
[1] Rose was commissioned by Andrea Wonfor to create a series set in a youth club to be produced by the independent company Zenith North for the BBC.
The show launched the careers of Ant & Dec, who played the friends PJ and Duncan,[4][7][8] as well as Donna Air and Jill Halfpenny.
[11] Byker Grove was included by The Guardian in a 2018 list of "definitive" shows for teenagers; Iman Amrani describes it as "the north's answer to Grange Hill", praising its "gritty" writing, which took on difficult topics such as sexual relationships (including those which were same sex) and foster care.