UK's longest running soap has a grim boring working class theme in a slummy street and 14 years ago to liven things up a MtF was written into the show and last night after being given fatal pancreatic surgery she overdosed.

10million people watched it but I didn't as I am sick and tired of UK soaps which are nothing but a sucession of close up shots of two angry faced people facing off about the latest affair, betrayal, stupidity.

So far it is thought one real girl has killed herself after the onscreen suicide was announced.

Hayley Cropper (nee Patterson) was on the show for 16 years.  She and Roy were very much in love with one another.

There are a number of partial and full episodes of Coronation Street on YouTube.