Coronation Street's Sally Dyvenor on how show helped her bounce back from cancer fight

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Three marriages, two kids, a string of affairs, umpteen catfights… and one constant yearning to remain on the Corrie cobbles.

Sally Dyvenor – the Street’s long-serving and at times long-suffering Sally Metcalfe – today reveals how a desire to stay in the soap for years to come drove her on during the bleakest of times.

Eleven years ago, her character broke down as she told then hubby Kevin Webster that she had breast cancer. And fans recall how Sally’s real life would mirror her art as she was soon battling the cruel illness off screen too.

Sally – whose TV years are chronicled in a Coronation Street special on Wednesday – says: “Corrie was a beacon actually. I realised how important my work is to me and I was desperate to get back,