Mrs Kane said she also feared her father, who is bed-ridden, may not have eaten if she had not provided food.

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He said was asked to do so to help highlight the fact that soldiers there were being "charged money to watch television despite being bed-ridden while recuperating".

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Making her debut in the second episode, Esther was a carer for her bed-ridden mother, and kept an eye out for the street's younger characters, including Christine Hardman, Ken Barlow and Lucille Hewitt.

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