Molly Dobbs (also Compton) is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera Coronation Street.

[2] Molly was killed off on 9 December 2010 in a live episode celebrating the show's 50th anniversary, by a tram crashing into the corner shop.

Molly begins dating Tyrone Dobbs (Alan Halsall) and lives with him and his foster parents Jack (Bill Tarmey) and Vera Duckworth (Liz Dawn).

Molly forms a close bond and friendship with Vera and asks her for advice about her relationship with Tyrone.

When Tyrone confesses that he has been selling illegal stock with Pam, Molly is furious and leaves him, saying that she can no longer trust him.

In mid 2009, Molly strikes up a friendship with Tyrone's workmate, Kevin Webster (Michael Le Vell).

Molly and Kevin soon confess their love for each other, and pledge to leave their respective spouses and start a new life together.

Kevin then hurries over to the Dobbs' house, on the pretense of needing stuffing for the turkey, after seeing Molly sitting Tyrone down.

Her appearance catches a lot of attention and Kevin is disgusted when Molly accuses him of lying about Sally's cancer.

On the second anniversary of Vera's death, Molly tells Tyrone that she is leaving him because she no longer loves him, and he begs her to stay.

Thinking that the car is ready, Tyrone takes it and drives through the countryside with Molly to tell her father Diggory the news about her pregnancy.

Kevin realises that the car is missing before he has finished his work on the brakes and frantically calls Molly and Tyrone.

Tyrone loses control of the car when the brakes fail and it leaves the road and somersaults into a field.

[7] When she regains consciousness Molly asks Pam, who is visiting her, what happened and she reveals that Kevin did not fix the brakes.

Molly tries to persuade Tyrone to move away from Weatherfield for a fresh start as she does not think it is fair for him or the baby to be around Kevin.

[9] In July 2010, Molly is thrilled when her neighbour Eileen Grimshaw (Sue Cleaver) expresses an interest in buying their house, much to Tyrone's despair.

Whilst Eileen and Owen Armstrong (Ian Puleston-Davies) are examining the house, Molly has a health scare and nearly collapses.

She suddenly goes into labour in her home and it is left to Sally to deliver the baby as Tyrone is out on a breakdown call-out.

Kevin comes into the shop to buy some milk and says goodbye to Molly and Jack after she tells him that he will never see his son again.

Shortly after Kevin leaves the shop, there is an explosion in 'The Joinery' bar which throws Molly and Jack to the floor.

Shortly afterward, Tyrone returns from the hospital and is devastated when Sally emerges from the rubble and informs him of Molly's death.

[11] The character of Molly was introduced as the daughter of local baker Diggory Compton (Eric Potts) in 2005.

Vicky Binns was selected to join Coronation Street as a rival for at-the-time already established character Fiz Brown.

[12] In April 2010 Binns announced that she had quit the show and will leave at the end of her contract which she did when she was killed off in the 50th anniversary when a tram crashed of the viaduct and destroyed the corner shop which Molly was in at the time.

[11] The Coronation Street official website described Molly as a bubbly, optimistic, friendly and outgoing character.

[14] Binns stated in another interview that Molly is stubborn and that honesty is the element of a relationship she wants most, which was why she was reluctant to forgive Tyrone for his deception.

They hit one of their first difficulties when Molly finds out that Tyrone has been selling illegal goods with her Aunt, Pam Hobsworth (Kate Anthony).

Ian Wylie of The Manchester Evening News praised the character and actress for scenes which aired during the highly publicised death of long-term character Vera Duckworth, stating: "readers will know how impressed I was by the acting of Vicky Binns in scenes immediately following the death of Vera Duckworth".

Let's just hope it's one of those storylines that will be swept under the carpet soon and never mentioned again…"[23] In 2010, Dan Martin from The Guardian put Molly on his "fantasy hit-list" of characters to be killed-off in 50th anniversary special as he believed that Molly had "lost her personality", and that he believed that it would create "better drama" if the soap's scriptwriters used the accident to kill-off "major characters we're supposed to care about".