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1st December 1989: For some time the residents of Coronation Street had watched as Alan Bradley swanned round their environs, the due process of the law having taken place after he had viciously assaulted Rita Fairclough in the March. Back in their midst, Rita claimed that Alan had been terrorising her but he craftily covered his tracks and left little proof of his misdeeds. Now Rita had disappeared and speculation was rife as to where she had got to. One evening in the Rovers, tensions reached boiling point when Percy Sugden bravely spoke out against his unwanted presence in the pub and earned himself the threat of a thump, Don, Alf and Jack leaped to Percy's defence and the mother of all fights looked imminent until Sally Webster ran in screaming that the police were digging up the building site on the other side of the street, looking for Rita's body...
 * For more information see Episode 2999 (1st December 1989).