Some two months after shopkeeper Dev Alahan moved to Weatherfield to look after the Corner Shop for his uncle Ravi Desai, ex-girlfriend Amy Goskirke followed him up from Birmingham. Dev was instantly hostile towards her and physically threw her out of the shop. Spotted crying by her car by Norris Cole, he took her for a drink in the Rovers whereupon she overheard landlady Natalie Barnes talking about the need to employ another barmaid and she got taken on after telling of her experience in such work.