Coronation Street star Barbara Young dies aged 92

Coronation Street and Last Of The Summer Wine actress Barbara Young has died on the age of 92.

Singer Liza Pulman described her actress mom – who additionally starred in I, Claudius and Family Affairs – as “warm-hearted and talented”.

Pulman stated Young died on Thursday following care at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge.

“Just to let people know, my beautiful, brilliant, opinionated, loud, warm-hearted, talented and singular mother died on Thursday night at 10.30pm,” she wrote on Instagram.

“My sister Cory and I have been by her hospital mattress for 30 hours straight and in the long run, as is so typically the case, she slipped away in our absence with an exquisite nurse referred to as Mercy (you could not write it) caring for her.

“The care she received in those last days at Addenbrookes was remarkable – considered, careful and empathetic – and to a person, they all said how much they had loved my mum, how she had made them laugh and how she had always been interested in them.

“She was 43 years with out my father, 30 years with no cigarette and 20 years with no drink however by no means with no humbug.”

Young loved appearances in numerous soaps together with The Bill, Casualty, Hollyoaks, Doctors and Holby City.

She additionally had components through the years in ITV cleaning soap Coronation Street together with as Barbara Platt, the mom of Martin Platt, who married Gail, and most lately as Rita Sullivan’s pal Doreen Fenwick.

After arriving as Doreen in 2007, she obtained a wedding proposal from Norris Cole and was at one level advised to pack her luggage by Rita earlier than they made up.

Pulman added: “I am my father’s daughter and those who know me well will know that I am never at a loss for words, but today, I have no words to describe how much I will miss her. You did well mum. Safe travels.”

On Pulman’s Instagram, comic Dawn French wrote: “Love all around you, sweet L.”