Coronation Street executive producer Kieran Roberts has indicated that characters from the show's past will return for the funeral of Betty Williams.
Betty Driver, who played the Rovers’ Return barmaid since 1969, passed away in October at the age of 91. She is yet to be written out on screen.
According to the Manchester Evening News, Roberts said that old faces from Betty's 42-year stay in Weatherfield will reappear for her April send-off.
"I think we've come up with a fitting exit for her,” He said. “It'll be shown in the spring. It's important we get that right because she was so loved by the fans and by all of us who work on Coronation Street.
"But it will mainly be about her and saying goodbye to her with the right amount of respect and the right tone."
So far Jean Alexander (Hilda Ogden), Julie Goodyear and Roy Barraclough (Bet and Alec Gilroy), Sarah Lancashire (Raquel Watts) and Cheryl Murray (Suzie Birchall) have all been tipped to return.
Goodyear - who starred on Coronation Street alongside Driver for 25 years - has already indicated that she’d make a one-off return to the British soap.
