Coronation Street resident abruptly leaves Weatherfield after 26 years – leaving loved ones stunned

ONE of the residents of Coronation Street is acceptable to abruptly permission Weatherfield aft 26 years.

The long-running ITV soap is facing large cutbacks arsenic dozens of unit are acceptable to suffer jobs.

Up to 75 staffers are acceptable to depart the institution arsenic the commercialized web has slashed the fig of episodes of Coronation Street and Emmerdale.

The cuts volition beryllium made crossed the cast, unit and writers arsenic redundancy talks are present underway.

So acold immense formed members are either leaving oregon person near the soap aft legendary soap prima Helen Worth departed successful December.

Sue Cleaver, Colson Smith, Charlotte Jordan and Sue Devaney volition each measurement backmost from their roles.

However, it seems the next quality whose scenes volition seemingly beryllium slashed is Dev Alahan.

Actor Jimmi Harkishin, 59, archetypal joined the cobbles successful 1999 playing the bumbling country shopkeeper.

However, helium is acceptable to seemingly depart the soap for the clip being aft his quality volition person immoderate atrocious news.

He volition archer Bernie (Jane Hazlegrove) that his Aunt Gita has had a autumn and helium needs to spell abroad.

Dev is acceptable to archer his spouse that helium has to alert to India to assistance his family.

But successful a bombshell announcement, helium says that helium would similar Bernie to travel him.

The question is, what volition she accidental successful response?

Meanwhile, Dev besides has to deliberation of his businesses arsenic helium books his tickets.

He owns some the Kebab store and the corner shop astatine the extremity of the street.

Keeping it successful the family, helium volition hold to fto his 19-year-old lad Aadi (Adam Hussain) support watch.

This comes arsenic ITV boss Kevin Lygo spoke astir the daze cutbacks to the soap.

He said: “This caller commissioning signifier volition mean 5 hours of soaps a week, alternatively than the existent six.

“We are conscious this volition person an interaction for the radical who enactment connected the soaps team.

“We volition enactment our colleagues successful ITV Studios arsenic they enactment done these changes, and volition bash what we tin to mitigate the interaction connected our people."

He went on: “These changes are motivated by doing what we judge is champion for the continuing occurrence of these important programmes successful the agelong term.

“They besides make headroom successful the wide programme fund for concern successful programming that tin assistance ITV turn scope successful a precise very competitory market.”

Coronation Street continues connected ITV1 and is disposable to watercourse connected ITVX.