CORRIE SPOILER: Simon Barlow's allotment error sparks Nazir family row
THE ongoing allotment feud in Coronation Street is set to heat up this month, after lazy Zeedan Nazir drafts in Simon Barlow to lend a hand.
Simon Barlow is set to cause problems for the Nazir family
After being asked to help out with some planting and weeding at the family's plot by his grandfather Sharif (Marc Anwar), the craft character, played by Qasim Akhtar, swiftly has other ideas.
Zeedan asks young Simon, portrayed by Alex Bain, to do all the hard work instead, while his family member is away.
However as these pictures show, all is not well on Sharif's return when it turns out they've planted their vegetables on nemesis Roy Croppers side of the garden.
The ITV1 soap's producer Stuart Blackburn has previously announced that Roy's allotment saga will also lead to him making friends with a troubled new female character.
The youngster accidentally plants the vegetables on Roy Cropper's allotment
Zeedan ropes in Simon to help while his grandfather is away
He told Inside Soap: "Roy meets a widowed lady over on the next allotment. She's not going to be a love interest, but someone who Roy will feel obliged to help guide through the world.
"We know how nervous Roy is around people he doesn't know, so the fact that he's able to come out of his shell and offer real, redemptive support to a complete stranger is a sign that the Roy we all know and love is back."
The news comes just days after, in what promises to be one of the drama's most controversial story lines, it was revealed that schoolgirl Faye Windass was set to keep her shock pregnancy secret until the moment she gives birth.
Faye, played by Ellie Leach, will become the soap's youngest character to become a mum – aged just 12-years-old.
The character has to start the planting all over again after the error
In Friday's double-bill the wayward pre-teen will discover she's pregnant, after months of worrying about the cause of her weight-gain.
After her pal Craig Tinker, played by Colson Smith, encourages her to take a pregnancy test, a horrified Faye then works out that she must be seven months pregnant already.
Soap bosses have confirmed that Faye will keep the rest of her pregnancy a secret from everyone except Craig, as she desperately tries to come to terms with the fact she is about to become a mother.