CORONATION Street's Sarah-Louise Platt, who this week becomes conned by an Internet stalker, has urged schoolchildren to be careful when they go online.

Tina O'Brien, who plays the Street's teenage mother, is lured into meeting a man in his 30s in a special post-watershed edition of the soap on Friday, after thinking he was a boy her own age.

She and on-screen friend Todd Grimshaw, played by Bruno Langley, visited pupils at a school in Oldham to promote child safety on the Internet.

(For more details on the dangers of Internet stalking click on our CHATROOM STALKER file on the Local News, left link)