2016

Events

 * 1st January - Emily Bishop leaves for a six-month trip to Peru, helping Spider Nugent volunteering in a school.
 * 4th January - Carla Connor breaks the news to Aidan and Kate Connor that their father Johnny is also Carla's biological father. Aidan and Kate are disgusted and order Johnny to leave.
 * 8th January - Cathy Matthews accidentally sets fire to her house while burning love letters she discovered from her sister Nessa Warner addressed to her late-husband Alan. Nessa and Roy Cropper spot the blaze and Roy enters to rescue Cathy. Ken Barlow also ends his relationship with Nessa.
 * 11th January - Hope Stape has an operation to remove a cancerous tumour.
 * 13th January - Tracy Barlow opens Preston's Petals on Rosamund Street.
 * 18th January - Jamie Bowman and his mate Lee raid Nick's Bistro to get revenge on waitress Steph Britton for losing them their jobs. They only manage to steal Carla's handbag. While trying to retrieve the it, Carla is thrown from their getaway car and badly injured. Pat Phelan returns, working on Kevin Webster's new garage.
 * 27th January - Audrey Roberts suffers an angina attack and tells Ken Barlow she loves him. Rita Tanner meets Jenny Bradley, seven months after she was arrested for kidnapping Jack Webster.
 * 29th January - Fiz Stape and Tyrone Dobbs are told that Hope's cancer is in remission.
 * 10th February - Pushed to the limit, Leanne Tilsley reports Simon Barlow's assaults to the police.
 * 15th February - Tracy tells Carla that she knows she slept with Robert Preston and hints that she's going to blackmail her over cheating on Nick Tilsley.
 * 26th February - Jamie Bowman is sentenced to three years in prison for distributing naked photos of Steph Britton online without her permission.
 * 4th March - Aidan Connor fires Eva Price from her job at Underworld.
 * 11th March - Gemma Winter is taken on at Audrey's as a work experience trainee.
 * 14th March - Anna Windass reveals to Eileen Grimshaw that Pat Phelan once coerced her into sex, in order to put Eileen off entering into a relationship with Phelan. Eileen doesn't believe Anna as Phelan had earlier told Eileen that Anna had done all the chasing.
 * 21st March - Sarah Platt gives birth to her son five weeks' early.
 * 15th April - Gary Windass is arrested for possession of cannabis. Izzy Armstrong confesses to the police that Gary was buying the drugs for her pain management.
 * 25th April - Tony Stewart is found dead in his flat, having laid undiscovered for three days following a heart attack.
 * 9th May - Tony Stewart's funeral takes place.
 * 13th May - Carla Connor and her hens (Beth Sutherland, Kate Connor, Michelle Connor, Maria Connor, Sally Metcalfe, Caz Hammond, Gail Rodwell, Kylie Platt and Cathy Matthews) get themselves arrested after causing trouble at a club.
 * 16th May - In Blackpool, Jenny Bradley saves Jack Webster's life after a tram nearly runs him down.