Sandra Arden

Sandra Arden (née Gilroy) was the daughter of Alec and Joyce Gilroy.

Alec decided to contact his daughter to make up for the last twenty years and managed to obtain Sandra's address from his ex-wife Joyce. After discovering that Sandra lived in a massive Cheshire house, Alec met her and her husband Tim along with his granddaughter Victoria.

After initial misunderstandings between the Ardens and the Gilroys, Sandra told Alec that he could keep in touch with them. In July 1991, she broke the news that Alec's ex-wife, Joyce, had died. Sandra asked Alec to meet Victoria from boarding school and to put her up at the Rovers so that she and Tim could attend Joyce's funeral in Whitby.

Before the Gilroys set off for the train station, a Police Sergeant arrived to tell Alec that Sandra and Tim had both been killed in a car crash in Whitby.