A new family member will cause a stir on Coronation Street

Life is going to become a lot more complicated for Corrie’s café owner Roy Cropper when he discovers he has a secret family he never knew existed.

Coronation Street viewers are about to find out that Roy has been doing some more digging into his mother’s secret life and has unearthed evidence of a son she had during an affair.

And his brother has a daughter, Nina, who's soon going to have to depend on her new Uncle Roy.

David Neilson who plays Roy said: “The storyline is a great device to bring Roy’s niece Nina into his life, a new relationship with a younger character, a troubled young person in the same way as he took in Wayne, Fiz, Becky and even cared for Carla when she was struggling.

"It is an interesting dynamic."