FORMER Coronation Street star and Bolton resident Bev Callard is reportedly heading back to the 'soap'.

Last year Bev, her husband Steve and the couple's 11-year-old son Josh moved from their £210,000, five-bedroomed house in Smithills to set up home in a luxury Costa Del Sol villa.

The successful TV star, who has also filmed two keep fit videos and used to run exercise classes at the Last Drop hotel, continued to commute back to Britain to work on new programmes.

And today, it was reported that the flame-haired actress is set for a return to Weatherfield for a series of dramatic storylines.

Her shock return, said to be scheduled for autumn, comes after her character Liz McDonald left the street in November, 1998.

Liz moved to Milton Keynes after starting an affair with screen husband Jim's physiotherapist.