Felicity Khan Felicity " Flick " Khan was a Manchester Polytechnic student who lodged at 7 Coronation Street with Jenny Bradley from April to August 1990 . Biography . Born in the early 1970s , Felicity - Flick to her friends - grew up in the south of England . She and her younger sister Joanne were the first members of the family to be raised in the UK after they moved over from Karachi . One consequence of the move was that Flick never knew her grandmother , who had remained in Pakistan . As a young girl , Flick was close to Joanne but they drifted apart when Flick got older and felt the need to leave home to escape their strict father . The first time she fell in love , Flick made a fool of herself with an older man and got badly hurt , but didn ' t tell her dad as she knew that he would overreact . After leaving school , she struck out on her own , leaving the family home in Canterbury to study at Manchester Polytechnic in 1989 . Living in the student halls , Flick became friends with classmate Jenny Bradley . Jenny was at that time coping with the loss of her father Alan , for which she blamed Rita Fairclough . In February 1990 , Jenny locked herself in her dorm room and turned away visitors . Worried and knowing Jenny ' s past history , Flick went to see Rita at the Kabin to alert her to the latest development and urged her to visit her . Having made up with Rita , Jenny got over her slump and rejoined the outside world . Jenny decided that being cooped up in a tiny dorm room had been bad for her and , with Flick also keen to get out of the halls , the girls decided to leave at the end of term and rent a place together . As Rita was due to move into 10a Coronation Street , above the new Kabin , she offered them the tenancy of 7 Coronation Street , which they keenly accepted . On their first night with the house to themselves , Flick and Jenny invited their friends Tom and Justin over and prepared dinner for four , only to be stood up . As the girls both fancied Tom , this was perhaps the best outcome ! The neighbours were worried that having a student house in the Street would mean a lot of noise and parties but the girls gave them no cause to complain , with Jenny putting a ban on friends using it as a doss house . When Rodney Whitworth was thrown out of his lodgings , Flick let him sleep on No . 7 ' s sofa until he got himself sorted , against Jenny ' s orders . She came to regret her kindness as Rod lazed around on the sofa all day and upset the neighbours with his loud music , but due to a surprising change of heart by Jenny , Flick thought that her friend must fancy him and allowed him to stay . After conferring with Jenny , Flick discovered that she had thought the same thing about her , and they asked Rod to leave . Rod gave the girls the runaround to buy himself time before being seen off by Mark Casey . Mark followed up his gallant act by asking Flick out on a date . Thinking Mark vain and aggressive , Flick tried to let him down gently but he badgered her into accepting . The " date " was a washout beyond even Flick ' s low expectations , with the young mechanic taking her out with his friends and eating at a service station . Flick tried to break it off , only to have a gold necklace foisted on her as a gift , which unbeknown to her had been appropriated by Mark after he found it on the garage floor . Rather than return the necklace to Mark , Flick donated it to a charity shop , and absolved herself of any responsibility when Kevin Webster demanded that Mark return the necklace to its rightful owner . After buying it back from the charity shop , Mark gave up his pursuit of a relieved Flick . After finishing college for the summer , Flick and Jenny helped out occasionally at the Kabin before landing jobs in a sweet factory . In July , once again jobless after getting the sack , the girls decided to work in France over the summer months instead , stopping by her home in Canterbury on their way to the ferry . Their plans were scuppered when Flick ' s grandmother fell ill in Karachi , and Flick was asked to look after Joanne for a few days while her parents flew out to Pakistan . Joanne proved to be a handful , attracting the attentions of Steve and Andy McDonald , with Steve and Joanne falling for each other . After spending a few days trying ( and failing ) to keep Joanne away from Steve , Flick prepared to take her home to Canterbury only to discover that the pair had gone off on Jim McDonald ' s motorbike during the night . Terrified of her father ' s reaction , Flick made an excuse not to come home while they awaited Joanne and Steve ' s return but she was forced to tell her parents the truth when Liz McDonald reported the youths missing to the police . After a few days , Joanne returned on her own having fallen out with Steve and hitchhiked her way back to Weatherfield from the Lake District . Flick and Jenny were then able to go to France as planned . Towards the end of their stay in France , when the girls were in Marseille , Flick fell for a final year medical student called Eric and , offered a job looking after two children , decided to remain behind . Her decision greatly upset her parents , with her father disowning her . Later , when Flick ' s college friend and former schoolmate Angie Freeman was looking for lodgings , Flick - who had kept in touch with Angie to ask her to pass messages onto her mother - suggested she ask Jenny if she could have her old room at No . 7 . Personality . Flick was a responsible , serious - minded student and a good friend to Jenny . Although she was more industrious than the student stereotype , Flick liked to unwind after classes , preferring an intimate dinner over parties . She was willing to put herself out for friends , as shown when she went on at Jenny about letting Rodney Whitworth sleep on their sofa when he was kicked out his digs and installed him there despite Jenny saying no . She had matured a great deal when she left the family home to study in Manchester but had the occasional lapse , such as when she refused to call the police when Joanne Khan and Steve McDonald went missing as she was afraid to tell her father , and later when she decided to give up her studies and remain in France . Background information . Rita Wolf joined " Coronation Street " in 1990 and was part of the main cast for six months . Her character was nearly always called by her nickname " Flick " however she was credited in all of her appearances by her full name of " Felicity Khan " . Wolf was the first Asian regular in " Coronation Street " . Flick had no on - screen exit and her decision to remain in France was revealed in Episode 3131 ( 8th October 1990 ) , in which Angie Freeman debuted . Notable dialogue . " Mrs . Fairclough ? " ( First line ) " Well I hope you ' ve packed your sunblock , I don ' t want any complaints from you over the next six weeks about how your delicate redhead complexion ' s getting fried . " ( Final line , to Jenny Bradley )