Seven Corrie characters leaving this month

There's an excellent new resource on Digital Spy which lists characters coming and going in each of the soaps. But it's bad news for Coronation Street who'll lose seven, count 'em, seven characters this month.

They are: Paula Carp, Martha Fraser, Poppy Morales, Colin Grimshaw, Tara Mandel, Mary Taylor and Tom Kerrigan.

But fear not, as there are two new characters coming this month - this one and this one - and there's one returning too.