She first appeared in November 2005, when her mum Ravinder was taken into hospital and she was looked after by her dad and his wife, Sunita Alahan (Shobna Gulati) on the Street.

Unable to contain her anger any longer, Tina stormed around to the house demanding to know why David was playing these games, this interruption left Amber humiliated.

She breaks up with her boyfriend Darryl Morton (Jonathan Dixon) when she finds out he was going to leave her after her Dev paid him, although he changed his mind.

Mitch met the couple in Victoria Street having booked a cab from StreetCars and excitedly told the pair that he could not wait to go to London as he would be able to purchase an Oyster card and use the underground instead of shelling out for taxis.

Annoyed at finding out that he would be attending the same university as Amber, Darryl demands an explanation from her after instructing Mitch to go and double-check the booking, but as Amber brushed the matter aside and accused him of over-reacting, the pair argued and Darryl jumped to the conclusion that she fancied Mitch and refused to attend the party.

She soon starts catching up with old acquaintances such as David and Sean Tully (Antony Cotton) and helps Sophie Webster (Brooke Vincent) get her job back at her father's shop.

However, when they came back, they saw Amber having an argument with Tyrone, Fiz Stape (Jennie McAlpine), Chesney Brown (Sam Aston) because she was having a party in the house.

Amber gets a job in London and Dev stays with her for a few months after Sunita's affair with Karl Munro (John Michie) is exposed.

ITV Publicity goes on to confirm this by describing the character of Amber as: "She is an intelligent, friendly, outgoing chatterbox who loves sharing gossip with Norris Cole.

Due to his pairing with Amber, his character was given a reprieve so they could carry their on-screen romance after originally being axed with the rest of the Morton family.

[5] The character of Amber became central to storylines during 2008 and Patel impressed bosses with her performance, and she was awarded with an onscreen relationship and friends; the first being Minnie Chandra who was portrayed by Poppy Jhakra.

A spokesperson from the soap opera said: We've been extremely pleased with Nikki Patel's performance as Amber, so we thought it was about time to explore her friends on the Street.

As White thought Amber did a great job of making Sophie and Sian's "terribly twee romance much more exciting".