Maggie Jones leaves more than £1m in her will

The Sun reports today that Maggie Jones, who played Coronation Street's Blanche Hunt, left more than £1m in her will. Probate records reveal that Maggie left £1,188,193 - reduced after liabilities to £1,165,415.

Her will, drawn up in 2003, left legacies of £8,000 to friends and relatives and everything else to her sister Joan. Maggie had no children and her lawyer husband John Stansfield died aged 72 in 1999 after 28 married years.