A very young Sam Aston who still plays Chesney in the top TV soap Coronation Street is pictured officially opening the RSPCA charity shop at the Rock in Bury in 2005.
Sam is with Zac the collie who needed to find a good home as Zac had been with the RSPCA for over a year
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