Coronation Street character to face brutal death as bosses of cash-crisis soap plot ‘edge-of-your-seat new storyline

CORRIE bosses are to ramp up the play connected the cash-crisis soap — by having a quality changeable dead.

Killer Rob Donovan volition origin panic connected the Cobbles aft helium escapes prison.

Rob, played by Marc Baylis, volition instrumentality hostage his sister Carla Connor, played by Alison King.

It leads to the shooting and death.

A TV insider said: “Viewers volition beryllium connected the borderline of their seats arsenic the gripping hostage ordeal followed by a cold-blooded execution unfolds.

"No 1 is harmless from the peril and havoc Rob is acceptable to unleash.”

It emerged past week that up to 75 radical among ITV’s 600-strong Corrie and Emmerdale casts and unit look redundancy.

All episodes are to beryllium scaled backmost to 30 minutes, meaning an hour’s little soap a week.

Several Corrie formed members person near successful caller weeks including Sue Cleaver (Eileen Grimshaw), Charlotte Jordan (Daisy Midgeley), Colson Smith (Craig Tinker) and Sue Devaney (Debbie Webster).

Insiders blasted rising costs and falling advertisement gross for the changes.

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