Claire Palmer

Claire Palmer
'''Full name: Parents: Born:  Siblings:  Married: Geoff Palmer (d: 1994) Children:'''Rebecca(f: Geoff)

Played by:Maggie Norris First appeared: 8 May1996 Claire is a widow - her husband Geoff was a Flight Lieutanant in the RAF, killed in a hanger fire accident. Presumably after her husband's death she lost their service house, and having no where else to live, she moved in with her in-laws, helping sell ornamental chamber pots and crockery on herfather-in-law's market stall.

Des Barnes in his typically smarmy chat-up way, saw Claire on the market stall and bought her a (cold !) coffee - but she still fell for him, and within 3 months had moved into Nº6 Coronation Street - much to the annoyance of her mother-in-law. It soon bacame clear that Claire was still receiving Geoff's RAF pension worth £16,5000 a year, which she would loose if she lived with someone else, and briefly moved into the flat above the Bookies to try and cover their tracks. Things didn't work out and by December 1996 Claire and Becky had moved back into Des's, Claire had relinquished her pension and started working at the Corner Shop to try and earn some money.