Coronation Street actress Kym Marsh has told how she went to "very dark places" in her mind while filming her latest storyline.  The actress, who lost a son in 2009 after 21 weeks, plays Michelle Connor, who will lose her baby at 23 weeks. The stillbirth charity Sands has worked with the ITV soap on the storyline.

Erica Stewart, the charity's bereavement specialist, said she hoped that "with a TV drama as popular as Coronation Street covering this heartbreaking experience, it will help to lift the taboo, and raise awareness of all the issues that surround the death of a baby."  Continue reading