Coronation Street’s Tracy and Steve to leave cobbles pair homeless with drastic move | TV & Radio | Showbiz & TV

Although they own businesses and property, Coronation Street’s Steve McDonald (played by Simon Gregson) and Tracy Barlow (Kate Ford) have serious financial worries due to the upcoming libel case.

Their daughter Amy (Elle Mulvaney) is being sued by Eric Sandford (Craig Cheetham) for social media posts where she named his son Aaron (James Craven) as a rapist.

Amy was motivated to write the controversial post after the police failed to charge him when she reported the assault.

Aaron has consistently denied that he raped her, however, Amy was passed out drunk when they had sex, so couldn’t consent and she has been traumatised ever since she realised what happened to her

Proceedings are far from cheap and next week they realise that they will have to take drastic action in order to find their defence.

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Although Amy has an inheritance from her Grandmother Deirdre Barlow (Anne Kirkbride), Steve shuts her down when she suggests using this to pay for the case.

He assures her that he and Tracy will find the funds he refuses to let her touch her nest egg.

However, when Amy overhears their plan to raise the money she is wracked with guilt as it has huge repercussions for other residents of the street.

The couple plans on selling Tracy’s flower shop Preston’s Petals, including the flat above it, which is currently home to Billy Mayhew (Daniel Brocklebank), Summer Spellman (Harriet Bibbie) and Paul Foreman (Peter Ash).

Paul was recently diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease and is struggling with both his diagnosis and mobility so the upheaval wouldn’t be good for him.

The sale of the shop would also cost Mary Taylor (Patti Clare) her job as there is no guarantee that it would remain a florist.

Amy confides in Summer, who is also Aaron’s ex-girlfriend, and she tackles him about his actions, tearing a strip off him.

Meanwhile, following a meeting with his solicitor, Eric is fired up and convinced that they are going to win and clean out the McDonalds.

As Amy’s anxiety grows, she discusses it with Maria Windass (Samia Longchambom) who is familiar with unwanted social media posts having been targeted by trolls in the past.

After a heart-to-heart with the hairdresser, Amy makes a decision.

She announces that she’s going to write a retraction as too many people are suffering as a result of the case.

Having put pen to paper she shows Aaron the statement however he is unable to understand it.

He points this out to an irate Amy who tells him that it is difficult to make sense of a pack of lies.

Furious she tells him to write whatever he likes, and she will sign it which he agrees to, but he struggles to compose anything as he recollects the night in question.

Will he have a change of heart about the court case?

Coronation Street is on ITV at 7.30pm Monday, Wednesday and Friday.