Granada Coronation Street

A joint statement, released by his family, said the actor, died "peacefully in his sleep" and was "with his friends and family at the end".

After three years of portraying the troubled yet kind-hearted Stu Carpenter, actor Bill Fellows says goodbye to Coronation Street.

Helen Worth who plays Gail Platt on the soap paid tribute to Hinsliff, saying he was a "lovely man who will be sadly missed".