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Coronation Street is set to see the return of bad boy Jacob Hay.

Coronation Street fans were moved to tears as they watched a pivotal moment for bereaved youngster Sam Blakeman.

Coronation Street fans were not expecting a thrilling twist involving soap favourite Leanne Battersby in Friday night's epic soap double bill.

Harvey Gaskell is back on Coronation Street and he is not in the best of moods, to say the least.

Leanne Battersby will be confusing viewers next week as she returns to the thick of the action.

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direct to your inboxCoronation Street's Jack James Ryan has confirmed Jacob Hay has left the soap. The Manchester actor has not long joined the soap as part of a gang who are running drugs under the cover of food deliveries.

Perth man who tried to rob a Stagecoach bus driver while wearing a blue plastic bag on his head as a mask - and armed with a pair of scissors - was jailed for 20 months at the Sheriff Court.A jury took just 15 minutes to convict 26-year-old Stephen Robertson who had been on remand in Perth Prison awaiting trial on a three-charge indictment.He was unanimously found guilty of attempting to rob Simon Barlow in the city’s Scott Street on May 18, 2020, after boarding the bus, with his face masked,

Things take a bad turn for Coronation Street villain Jacob Hay as he finds himself in hospital this week.

direct to your inboxLeanne Battersby is plunged into a dark new storyline with the arrival of drugs lord Harvey on Coronation Street.Leanne's troubled teen son Simon Barlow has been roped into a drugs gang and the doting mum gets involved when she tries to help him out from next week.Evil Harvey played by Will Mellor picks on Leanne, who is grieving the death of her three-year-old son Oliver, to become part of his operation - and he forces her to dress up as a nurse as a cover.

Corrie fans will finally get to set eyes on the new resident baddie Harvey who is arriving on the cobbles next week.

direct to your inboxManchester actor Jack James Ryan's character is causing a stir on the Coronation Street cobbles.Troublesome character Jacob Hay is part of a gang who are running drugs under the cover of food deliveries and he recently roped in vulnerable Simon Barlow.Jacob graduated from the Guildford School of Acting in 2018 and has appeared in TV shows including Casualty, Emmerdale and Doctors.Jack's character will be around in Weatherfield for a few months as Jacob as part of the

direct to your inboxCorrie viewers are aware teenager Simon Barlow has been drawn into drug dealing by his friend Jacob Hay while trying to support his grieving mum Leanne Battersby.However next week the dark events take another turn when 10-year-old Sam Blakeman is drawn into his new life on the soap.When Sam's dad Nick calls round with breakfast for Leanne and Simon, the boy begs Simon to take him on a bike ride.

direct to your inboxBack in 2008, a young boy from Blackburn joined one of the country's biggest soaps. Thirteen years later and Alex Bain is still at the heart of the Coronation Street cast with another huge storyline underway as his character, Simon Barlow, is lured into the dark and murky world of drugs gangs.

Geoff is barely dead and buried but the residents of Coronation Street can’t rest easy just yet as there is a new villain set to join the cobbles.

Coronation Street has a new famous face joining the cobbles, that of Will Mellor, who’ll be luring Simon Barlow back into the world of drugs. If you’ve been keeping up with Corrie over the past few weeks then you’ll have seen Simon, played by Alex Bain, get pulled into the murky world of drug gangs.

He previously dabbled in the soap world with his role on Hollyoaks, and now Will Mellor is all set to join Coronation Street, where he will play a drug lord.The actor, who lost his father in April last year, will play character Harvey who will lure teenager Simon Barlow into the scary world of drug gangs. Simon's mother Leanne Battersby will desperately try to save her son from the gangs he's become a part of, but Harvey will start threatening Peter Barlow's son when he wants out.

direct to your inboxWill Mellor is set to join Coronation Street in a 'villainous' role.The actor, from Stockport, will arrive in Weatherfield next month as drug lord Harvey.His arrival comes as Leanne Battersby, played by Jane Danson, finds herself forced into a dangerous world of drugs and despair.Corrie fans will have seen the start of Simon Barlow's decent into drug carrying and in the coming weeks viewers will see a still grieving Leanne battling to save her son from the hands of an evil

direct to your inboxCoronation Street's Alex Bain has opened up about how he has spent the last year in and out of lockdown.The actor, known for portraying Simon Barlow, has been part of the ITV soap since 2008.When the coronavirus pandemic hit last year, Corrie was among the various soaps and TV shows that halted filming, something that hit the cast and crew hard."When we were off for all that time, not working, I did feel a bit lost because I was working all the time and it is hard to get out

Jack James Ryan is currently gearing up to cause drama on the cobbles on Coronation Street. His character Jacob Hay is on his way to make life very tricky for Simon Barlow.

direct to your inboxLeanne Battersby recently went through unimaginable tragedy on Coronation Street after the death of her three-year-old son Oliver, and in the new year there's horror when Simon Barlow finds her passed out after taking an overdose.In heartbreaking Christmas scenes Leanne was resigned to the fact that she needed to make her partner Nick Tilsley move out so that he could bond with his nine-year-old son, Sam.Then her step sister Toyah revealed that she was fostering a baby boy,

Coronation Street actor Alex Bain has become somewhat of a household name among fans of the soap, playing the part of Simon Barlow. Alex rose to fame as a child star and first appeared on the cobbles back in 2008, and he’s since been involved in a series of tense plots.