Hayley Cropper RIP

**french frank** · 23-01-14, 13:53

Daily Mail reports:

Hayley Cropper commits suicide in Coronation Street, by Jim Shelley

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2542798/Hayleys-assisted-suicide-leaves-Roy-nation-tears-For-Weatherfield-Walford-look-chirpy-grim-night-Coronation-Street-writes-Jim-Shelley.html

The theme tune to Coronation Street had never sounded so funereal, like the type of mournful jazz lament traditionally found during a procession in New Orleans. It announced that Hayley Cropper (nee Harold Patterson) was departing, escaping her cancer by drinking a frothy cocktail of drugs - the climax to a storyline supported by an organisation advocating the controversial issue of terminally ill patients' right to die.

**Nick Armstrong** · 23-01-14, 14:17

Originally posted by Honoured Guest View Post

She loved a good tune.

Didn't see it but is that slightly odd remark a reference to the fact that Vaughan Williams's 'Lark Ascending' was, I gather from a relative, in at the kill ...? Which will no doubt send it soaring up the CFM / BBC Breakfast charts. Though good on Corrie for having some decent music. (I've seen a couple of scenes in the past where Roy's had some Mahler going in their flat above 'Roy's Rolls'

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**Barbirollians** · 23-01-14, 17:28

Most moving Corrie scene since Hilda opened the parcel of Stan's effects she brought home from the hospital ?

**french frank** · 23-01-14, 17:37

Originally posted by Barbirollians View Post

Most moving Corrie scene since Hilda opened the parcel of Stan's effects she brought home from the hospital ?

Or the sobering moment of Martha Longhurst's death in the Snug? Ena Sharples loved a good tune too!

**Ferretfancy** · 23-01-14, 18:34

I haven't watched for a while, but I bet there'll be trouble at the funeral!

I'm told that the lovely Todd is now back from London's fleshpots as an evil character, thus following the rule that the gays have to die or commit terrible deeds.

**amateur51** · 23-01-14, 18:38

Originally posted by french frank View Post

Or the sobering moment of Martha Longhurst's death in the Snug? Ena Sharples loved a good tune too!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTQcf-hv2Tw

I remember it well!

**french frank** · 23-01-14, 20:23

Originally posted by amateur51 View Post

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTQcf-hv2Tw

I remember it well!

Oh, no!!! I couldn't bear to watch it again! As I remember, there was a crowd of regulars laughing and singing out at the bar when suddenly ... and all fell silent.

Hayley Cropper RIP

Hayley Cropper RIP

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