Corrie character 'to die at Christmas'

Coronation Street love cheat Molly Dobbs is to be killed off at Christmas in a dramatic storyline, a report has claimed.

The shop worker, played by actress Vicky Binns, will meet her maker in the climax to her long-running love triangle plot involving husband Tyrone (Alan Halsall) and mechanic Kevin Webster (Michael Le Vell), The Sun claims.

Molly is currently pregnant and sources suggest that Kevin and wife Sally (Sally Dynevor) will end up taking in the child following her death.

Binns announced last month that she is to leave Coronation Street after five years with the soap. Speaking at the time, she promised that her current storyline would have "the explosive ending viewers are waiting for".

Meanwhile, Corrie's new series producer Phil Collinson recently praised the slow-burning nature of Molly and Kevin's storyline and vowed to keep "tantalising" the audience with more twists to come.

Hairdresser Natasha Blakeman (Rachel Leskovac) has also been tipped to be killed off later this year in a suicide storyline. Meanwhile, John Stape's old friend Colin Fishwick is another character who is expected to die following reports of a sinister plot which is to unfold later in the summer.