Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Coronation Street star Sally Ann Matthews, who left the show last year, has hit out at the ITV soap for focusing on crime plots. The actor, 55, is best known for playing Jenny Bradley on the cobbles, having originally joined the soap in 1986. Over the past four decades, Matthews appeared in Weatherfield on-and-off, however her latest stint was an impressive 10 years. Last year, Matthews announced that she would be leaving the soap to play roles that she “always hoped I would when I’d grown up”. In a new interview, she has shared her gripes with the ITV soap, criticising Coronation Street for abandoning “character-led” storylines. “We, as a cast, have been having these conversations for three or four years, and the crew,” she told The Mirror on Sunday (22 February). “Their family and people in the street [are] saying …