Former Coronation Street star Brian Hibbard has died at the age of 65 after a long battle with prostate cancer.
The actor - who played Deirdre Barlow's love interest Doug Murray in the soap for 10 months before leaving in 1993 - passed away in hospital with his wife Caroline by his side.
He'd been diagnosed with the disease in 2010 and became seriously ill 8 weeks ago.
Brian first came to fame as the lead singer and founding member of a cappella group The Flying Pickets, who scored a Christmas No 1 single in 1983 with a cover of Yazoo's Only You.
In 1997, he starred with Rhys Ifans and Dougray Scott in the film Twin Town.
More recently, the dad-of-3 had roles as Henry Mason in EastEnders and Bobby-John Downes in Emmerdale.
'His family were the most important thing in his life,' Brian's friend and Twin Town co-star Boyd Clack tells the Daily Mirror.
'He was an honest, decent and upright man. He was also a great singer, a great actor and a fine socialist.'
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