1983 - Stan and Hilda Ogden's 40th wedding anniversary party is held in the Rovers Return Inn. Eddie and Marion Yeats leave during the party to get ready for their move to Bury. Len Fairclough is killed when he falls asleep at the wheel on a motorway when returning home from visiting his mistress Marjorie Proctor. The police interrupt the party at the Rovers to inform Len's widow Rita Fairclough.