CORONATION Street boss teased emotional Christmas scenes as Paul Forman's MND storyline takes another devastating turn.

Corrie viewers know that Paul (Peter Ash) is suffering from Motor Neurone Disease – and they will soon discover that Paul has less than a year to live, meaning this will be his last Christmas.

And there’s set to be a tragic event that means his mum Bernie (Jane Hazlegrove) could miss it.

Corrie boss Iain Macleod said: “The challenge with a story like the one we’re doing with Paul is there’s this inevitable medical progression and we’re taking great care to show that in as much detail as we can because as a soap we’re in a position to do that.

"We’re not a drama where you have 90 minutes to tell a two year decline or whatever, you can show the day to day progression of illnesses like that with Paul, but you always need a story to have on top of that, so we’re always very keen to keep that family busy so that the medical story is always going on.

"But like we all have to do when we’re ill, contend with catastrophes that are nothing to do with the illness at all and this Xmas the catastrophe arises from Bernie and her historical involvement with Shelly’s slightly dubious online scamming and it puts her in a massive amount of legal hot water, to the extent that there’s every likelihood that she’s not going to be present for what will be Paul’s last Christmas. 

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“It’s classic Winter Brown sort of schemes and scamming – Bernie is very much Bernie through it all but it’s overlayed with this poignant knowledge that it’s possibly Paul’s last Christmas and that the family might not get to be together for one last festive moment. 

“Also, there’s a really fascinating exploration of their history – that family was scattered before the winds for a lot of the twins’ childhood. 

“It wasn’t an easy time, they didn’t have much money, there was Paul’s historically abusive stepfather. 

“There’s a lot of really poignant stuff as well, so what we’ve tried to do is make it bittersweet and as realistic as far as we could and a fitting, funny but poignant last Christmas for Paul with that fantastic family at the centre of it all.”

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Coronation Street airs Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 8pm on ITV1 and ITVX.

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