cigarettes and alcohol. Vikram discovers they are going via Brighton to see Vicky. On arrival at "Vicky's" - the wine bar she owns - Steve discovers that she is about to remarry. He plans to rekindle his relationship with her so that he can get his hands on her money and business, betting Vikram £100 that he can stop the wedding. It transpires that Vicky's bar is actually in trouble, as she asks Bet for a loan, but she refuses. Steve successfully seduces Vicky, and she admits that she cannot marry her fiancé, Robert. She also tells him she is broke, and the wine bar is losing money. He promises to pick her up later and return to Weatherfield, but Steve and Vikram leave without her. Vicky realises that she has been stood up, so Bet takes her back to the bar, and Vicky realises she does want to marry Robert after all. In 2002, Bet stated that Vicky was happily married. Tim Arden Tim Arden is husband of Sandra Arden and father of Vicky McDonald. Tim makes sparing appearances when his father-in-law Alec Gilroy visits the family. Tim makes his final appearance on 13 June 1990. 13 months later, shortly after Sandra was seen again on screen without Tim, a police sergeant arrives at the Rovers Return Inn to tell Alec that both Tim and Sandra have died in a car crash en route to Sandra's mother, Joyce's funeral. Sandra Arden Sandra Arden (also Gilroy) is the daughter of Alec and Joyce Gilroy. Alec decides to contact his daughter to make up for the last twenty years and gets Sandra's address from his ex-wife Joyce. After discovering that Sandra lives in a big house in Cheshire with her husband Tim and their daughter, Vicky. After initial misunderstandings between the Ardens and the Gilroys, Sandra tells Alec that he could keep in touch with them. In July 1991, Joyce dies and Sandra asks Alec to meet Vicky at boarding school and to let her stay at the Rovers Return so that she and Tim can attend Joyce's funeral in Whitby. Before the Gilroys set off for the train station, a Police Sergeant arrives to tell Alec that Sandra and Tim have both died in a car crash. Des Barnes Steph Barnes Stephanie "Steph" Barnes (née Jones), played by Amelia Bullmore, made her first screen appearance on 12 February 1990 and