FORMER Coronation Street star Nikki Sanderson has arrived in North Yorkshire to join the cast of Heartbeat.

These exclusive pictures show the actress on set in Goathland for the first time - playing the role of Dawn Bellamy.

Nikki is best known to many for playing Candice Stowe in ITV soap Coronation Street - a role she played for six years before leaving in 2005.

Since leaving she has appeared in BBC drama Holby City, presented CD:UK and launched a career as a glamour model.

The starlet has early drama when she gets off the train at the wrong stop in the fictional town of Ledby, before eventually finding her way to Aidensfield.