Ken Barlow loses another wife

Shocking news and only 60 years of age...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-30891246

RIP

I heard that she had throat cancer. By all accounts, she joined Coronation Street at 18 and smoked 20 fags a day. I liked her when she was Deidre Rashid with her husky voice but I never knew it was real and wasn't pretending.

RIP to a true Lancashire lass. I read somewhere that her father was a Priest?

She probably died due to all the Rovers Return punters using her kitchen as the lavatory.

Reebok Trotter wrote:I heard that she had throat cancer. By all accounts, she joined Coronation Street at 18 and smoked 20 fags a day. I liked her when she was Deidre Rashid with her husky voice but I never knew it was real and wasn't pretending.

RIP to a true Lancashire lass. I read somewhere that her father was a Priest?

Don't think so RT. Her father was called Jack and was the cartoonist for the Oldham Evening Chronicle.

But thinking a bit more - if her father was Jack...
...Father Jack? Probably not!

Reebok Trotter wrote:I heard that she had throat cancer. By all accounts, she joined Coronation Street at 18 and smoked 20 fags a day. I liked her when she was Deidre Rashid with her husky voice but I never knew it was real and wasn't pretending.

RIP to a true Lancashire lass. I read somewhere that her father was a Priest?

It appears that she was battling breast cancer.