Anne Foster

Anne Foster arrived on Coronation Street in September 2011 from France with her husband Sam to meet Carla Connor, who was currently engaged to her son, Frank. Anne and Carla initially got on well but tension arose when Carla got drunk in the bistro. Carla left after arguing with Anne and got in her car. Anne and Sam visited Carla in hospital after Frank called them after she ran down Stella Price and crashed her car into the bookies.

Anne and Sam were invited to the wedding later that month, but Frank called them when Carla called off the wedding. They later appeared at Frank's court case when he allegedly raped Carla. When Frank was denied bail and his case postponed, Anne lunged at Carla when she dubbed Frank a rapist, but Sam held her back.

Frank's appeal for bail was granted in October 2011, and he was released. He appointed Anne as proxy at Underworld, much to Carla's horror. When Carla overreacted after a client flirted with her, the business lost out on a big order. In retaliation, Anne hired removal men to take 49% of the materials and machines from the factory, as Frank owned part of the business. Following this, Carla plucked up the courage to confront Frank, but Anne threw her and Maria out of his house.

After taking a large portion of the factory, Anne helped Frank set up his faction of the business by persuading Sally Webster, a long time seamstress at Underworld who had been one of the workers made redundant by Carla due to the loss of material, to work as supervisor.

Anne and Sally later turned up at Underworld in December 2011 after a box of silk which was intended for Frank's factory was accidentally delivered to Carla. Carla and Michelle claimed that no such silk had been delivered to them, although later in the Rovers they played a prank on Anne and Sally by wearing the silk, leaving them furious.

Anne began to realise how the stress of Frank's upcoming trial was getting to him. She then decided to make Carla a proposition: drop the charges and Frank will stop running his business and she will never hear from him again. Carla disagreed and angrily threw her out of her flat.

List of appearances
2011


 * In a possible error of continuity, Frank stated in Episode 7547 that his mother was dead. It is possible Frank made it up, or it is just likely an error made by the producers. However, seeing as Carla's rape was planned since the start, and most likely the producers had in mind for his parents to come in, Frank would likely have made it up just to get sympathy from Maria. Maria has shared scenes with Frank's mother, but has never brought this up.