Coronation Street preview: Hayley takes a lethal cocktail (VIDEO)

The locals react with shock and grief when news spreads that Hayley Cropper has taken her own life in Coronation Street next week.

Earlier, Hayley, who has terminal cancer, gathers her friends in the cafe to say her goodbyes, even though they're unaware what she's planning.

Husband Roy knows only too well what his wife intends to do later that day – and he's powerless to prevent her...

Watch the scoop on Coronation Street:

 

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.