Coronation Street in 2019

2019 was Coronation Street's sixtieth year.

Main characters

Ranking	Character	Played by	Duration	Number of Episodes	Running total	Previous year's ranking
1	Gary Windass	Mikey North	Full year	163	1038	40
2	Sarah Platt	Tina O'Brien	Full year	152	2048	18
3	Nick Tilsley	Ben Price	Full year	142	1995	67
4	Gemma Winter	Dolly-Rose Campbell	Full year	141	433	28
5	Carla Connor	Alison King	Full year	135	1480	1
6	Shona Ramsey/Platt	Julia Goulding	Full year except for April	134	365	10
7	Sally Metcalfe	Sally Dynevor	Full year	133	3357	17
8	David Platt	Jack P. Shepherd	Full year	131	2537	14
9	Michelle Connor	Kym Marsh	Until December	126	1665	5
10	Jenny Connor	Sally Ann Matthews	Full year	124	735	8
10	Steve McDonald	Simon Gregson	Full year except for October	124	3296	16
12	Chesney Brown	Sam Aston	Full year	121	1226	49
13	Daniel Osbourne	Rob Mallard	Full year	118	511	14
14	Roy Cropper	David Neilson	Full year except for October	117	2247	28
15	Tim Metcalfe	Joe Duttine	Full year	116	768	7
16	Robert Preston	Tristan Gemmill	Until December	112	522	22
17	Emma Brooker	Alexandra Mardell	Full year	111	161	64
18	Johnny Connor	Richard Hawley	Full year	109	482	2
19	Beth Sutherland	Lisa George	Full year except for August and December	107	766	30
20	Peter Barlow	Chris Gascoyne	Full year	106	1579	3
21	Paul Foreman	Peter Ash	Full year except for August	103	106	92
22	Sean Tully	Antony Cotton	Full year	101	1707	57
23	Maria Connor	Samia Longchambon	Full year except for May	100	1712	35
23	Bethany Platt	Lucy Fallon	Full year	100	852	32
25	Tracy McDonald	Kate Ford	Full year except for November	97	2228	21
26	Ryan Connor	Ryan Prescott	Full year except for February and April	94	530	53
27	Adam Barlow	Samuel Robertson	Full year except for March and April	92	571	23
28	Yasmeen Nazir/Metcalfe	Shelley King	Full year	88	388	52
29	Ken Barlow	William Roache	Full year except for February	85	4605	46
29	Tyrone Dobbs	Alan Halsall	Full year except for May	85	2059	12
29	Billy Mayhew	Daniel Brocklebank	Full year	85	440	38
32	Sinead Tinker/Osbourne	Katie McGlynn	January to October and December	84	588	19
33	Mary Cole	Patti Clare	Full year	83	778	40
34	Seb Franklin	Harry Visinoni	Full year except for June and October	82	240	43
34	Imran Habeeb	Charlie De Melo	Full year	82	191	24
34	Evelyn Plummer	Maureen Lipman	Full year except for February	82	116	74
37	Kirk Sutherland	Andrew Whyment	Full year except for June	81	1385	36
38	Abi Franklin	Sally Carman	Full year	78	169	42
38	Ali Neeson	James Burrows	Full year except for January and February	78	196	39
40	Leanne Battersby	Jane Danson	Full year	76	2152	4
41	Izzy Armstrong	Cherylee Houston	Full year except for May	75	750	67
41	Alya Nazir	Sair Khan	Full year except for January and February	75	472	30
43	Eileen Grimshaw	Sue Cleaver	Full year except for November	74	2092	13
43	Gail Rodwell	Helen Worth	Full year except for August and September	74	4340	48
45	Amy Barlow	Elle Mulvaney	Full year except for April and July	73	732	70
45	Bertie Osbourne	Ellis Blain and Elias & Rufus Morgan-Smith	Full year except for May	73	73	-
45	Kevin Webster	Michael Le Vell	Full year except for May	73	3102	34
48	Rita Tanner	Barbara Knox	Full year	72	3817	54
49	Brian Packham	Peter Gunn	Full year	71	385	46
50	Audrey Roberts	Sue Nicholls	Full year except for April	69	3188	32
51	Geoff Metcalfe	Ian Bartholomew	Full year except for February	67	110	69
52	Kate Connor	Faye Brookes	January to May and July to September	64	447	10
53	Cathy Matthews	Melanie Hill	Full year except for May	59	358	50
53	Craig Tinker	Colson Smith	Full year	59	410	45
55	Toyah Battersby	Georgia Taylor	Full year	58	952	5
56	Claudia Colby	Rula Lenska	Full year except for May	56	112	83
57	Dev Alahan	Jimmi Harkishin	Full year except for March, July and November	55	1649	43
57	Michael Bailey	Ryan Russell	From June	55	55	-
57	Liz McDonald	Beverley Callard	Full year except for September and November	55	2395	9
60	Bernie Winter	Jane Hazlegrove	From July	51	51	-
61	Aggie Bailey	Lorna Laidlaw	From June	50	50	-
61	Ed Bailey	Trevor Michael Georges	June to September and from November	50	50	-
63	Paula Martin	Stirling Gallacher	January, May to October and from December	49	79	77
63	Sophie Webster	Brooke Vincent	January to March, May, July and September to October	49	1566	19
65	James Bailey	Nathan Graham	May to June and from August	47	47	-
66	Fiz Stape	Jennie McAlpine	From August	45	2061	37
67	Ruby Dobbs	Macy Alabi	Full year except for May	42	241	58
67	Max Turner	Harry McDermott	Full year except for April	42	473	72
69	Asha Alahan	Tanisha Gorey	Full year except for March, April and July	39	234	86
70	Hope Stape	Isabella Flanagan	From August	37	291	61
71	Lily Platt	Brooke Malonie	Full year except for April and July	34	219	76
72	Joseph Brown	William Flanagan	January to April and August to November	31	175	84
73	Faye Windass	Ellie Leach	Full year except for February, May and June	30	544	65
74	Gina Seddon	Connie Hyde	Until April	28	213	29
75	Alex Warner	Liam Bairstow	February to April, July to September and from November	27	118	82
76	Harry Platt	Freddie & Isaac Rhodes	Full year except for February, August and September	25	113	88
77	Simon Barlow	Alex Bain	January to April, June to July and November	23	661	56
78	Rana Habeeb	Bhavna Limbachia	Until May	21	244	25
78	Alina Pop	Ruxandra Porojnicu	April to May, July to August and December	21	21	-
80	Ray Crosby	Mark Frost	July, September and from November	18	18	-
81	Summer Spellman	Matilda Freeman	Full year except for June	17	131	56
82	Nina Lucas	Mollie Gallagher	From November	16	16	-
82	Moira Pollock	Louiza Patikas	Full year except for June, October and December	16	73	79
84	Jack Webster	Kyran Bowes	February, June to July and October to November	15	197	66
85	Aadi Alahan	Zennon Ditchett	January to February, May to June and August to October	14	199	89
85	Norris Cole	Malcolm Hebden	May to June, October and December	14	1638	-
87	Liam Connor	Charlie Wrenshall	January, June to August and from October	10	196	84
87	Jake Windass	Bobby Bradshaw	June and from September	10	106	94
87	Aled Winter-Brown	Charlotte & James Holt and Arthur, Lily & Lucy Taylor	From October	10	10	-
87	Bryn Winter-Brown	Charlotte & James Holt and Arthur, Lily & Lucy Taylor	From October	10	10	-
87	Carys Winter-Brown	Charlotte & James Holt and Arthur, Lily & Lucy Taylor	From October	10	10	-
92	Llio Winter-Brown	Charlotte & James Holt and Arthur, Lily & Lucy Taylor	From October	9	9	-
93	Oliver Battersby	Emmanuel & Jeremiah Cheetham	February, June, August and November	7	96	74
94	Kelly Neelan	Millie Gibson	June to July	6	6	-
94	Debbie Webster	Sue Devaney	October only	6	40	-
96	Nicola Rubinstein	Nicola Thorp	January to February	5	98	70
96	Grace Vickers	Kate Spencer	From November	5	5	-
98	Angie Appleton	Victoria Ekanoye	Until January	4	94	58
99	Jude Appleton	Paddy Wallace	January only	2	91	63
99	Lewis Archer	Nigel Havers	Until January	2	186	80
99	Fiona Middleton	Angela Griffin	August only	2	493	-
102	George Appleton	Romeo Cheetham-Karcz	Until January	1	48	78
102	Emily Bishop	Eileen Derbyshire	October only	1	3303	-

Production

Heroes and villains

Promotional image of Kate and Rana's wedding day that never was

2019 was the first year entirely produced by Iain MacLeod, who joined Coronation Street from Emmerdale in June 2018.

The programme's Friday doubles started being regularly combined into single episodes due to ITV making 8.30pm the slot for its two-hour dramas. This began in February with Vera and continued later in the year with Midsomer Murders, Foyle's War and Endeavour, although Coronation Street occupied its usual timeslots when those series were not airing.

Underworld's roof collapsed in a March stunt, killing Rana Habeeb on her wedding day. Bhavna Limbachia had decided to leave the programme having played Rana for three years [1]. Some in the LGBTQ+ community reacted negatively to Rana being killed off, citing it as an example of the "bury your gays" film and TV trope. Former Coronation Street writer Russell T. Davies was among those who criticized the programme [2]. However, Limbachia herself had asked for Rana to die, seeing it as the only fitting way to separate her and Kate Connor [3]. Limbachia made two further appearances as Rana, firstly in mobile phone footage shown at the character's memorial and the second in a vision of Carla Connor's. Sally Metcalfe was also injured in the collapse, but survived. Gina Seddon then left the street after mending a rift with her sister. Connie Hyde had quit after two years as Gina [4].

The factory explosion was part of a wider story in which a familiar character descended into villainy. The transformation was teased ahead of the storyline's airing, with the character in question seen tampering with the factory roof [5]. The six suspects teased by ITV were Seb Franklin, Gary Windass, Carla Connor, Peter Barlow, Nick Tilsley and Robert Preston [6]. Burdened with the guilt of letting the roof damage go unchecked, Carla suffered a psychotic episode in scenes airing as part of Britain's Got Talent week. In the same episode, Gary was revealed to the audience as the actual saboteur. After killing Rick Neelan in self-defence, Gary set himself up as a loan shark, selling repossessed furniture in the former Webster's Autocentre bodyshop.

Less than a year after being re-opened by Aidan Connor, Underworld was closed until December while the factory was rebuilt. In the meantime, Carla gave her 50% of the business away to her staff, who formed a workers' cooperative with Sarah and Nick as managers. Wayne Hayes, Roy and Hayley Cropper's former foster child, returned for a guest stint as a health and safety inspector investigating the roof collapse. During its rebuilding phase, Underworld operated from Jamila House and transitioned to selling their products by telemarketing rather than to clients. The rebuilt Underworld was an entirely new set, with a separate office for the factory's new sales arm. Gary Windass became their new landlord after buying the land and leasing it to Underworld, initially using Derek Milligan as a frontman.

A debtor of Gary's, Derek threatened his tormentor with a gun on Christmas Day and shot Shona Platt and Robert Preston, the latter fatally, before falling off a helter skelter and dying. This was the first death of a main character to take place on Christmas Day itself [7]. Robert's exit followed Tristan Gemmill's decision to leave Coronation Street after four years [8]. In his final weeks, Robert had become a father to Sonny Jefferies, son of Vicky with whom he was having an affair. His partner Michelle Connor left for Ireland two episodes later, as Kym Marsh quit after 13 years. Marsh told the press that she planned to return after experiencing new jobs outside of the soap [9]. The Viaduct Bistro was bought over by Ray Crosby, another villain who was built up over the preceding months as a powerful businessman and sex pest who silenced his victims with gagging orders.

A second Connor departure was aired in September when Kate left Weatherfield to go travelling, six months after Rana's death. Actress Faye Brookes resigned after playing Kate for four years [10].

A new family

Malcolm Hebden returned to filming in February, making his first appearance as Norris Cole since his 2017 heart attack. This was a guest spot designed to cut Norris's ties with Weatherfield, even though producers hoped to bring him back again [11]. The Kabin was sold to Brian Packham, while Norris ended his marriage to Mary in order to marry Freda Burgess.

The Baileys - James, Ed, Aggie and Michael

No.3 became home to a new family, the Baileys - Ed, Aggie and their grown sons Michael and James. Played by Trevor Michael Georges, Lorna Laidlaw, Ryan Russell and Nathan Graham, the Baileys were promoted as the Coronation Street's first black family [12]. Though strictly speaking there had been black families in the programme in the past, they were its first black nuclear family. Ed was a self-employed builder who took over the yard from Gary, employing Michael, with Aggie being a former nurse who worked at Roy's Rolls. James, youngest of the clan and the first to appear, was a closeted footballer for Weatherfield County FC, with his early storylines exploring homophobia in football.

After his send-off in June, Norris was seen in three more episodes. Two in October revolved around Ken Barlow's 80th birthday party, at which Emily Bishop made a surprise video call from Edinburgh to pass on her best wishes. The cameo was shot at a Wilmslow hotel near to Eileen Derbyshire home, nearly four years after she last appeared in the programme. Although Derbyshire's absence had gone well beyond the initial six months, earlier in the year Iain MacLeod had said the producers were in regular talks with the actress and the door would remain open [13]. Norris was last seen fleetingly in December where he revealed to Rita that he and Freda were looking for somewhere local to live. This was setup for further appearances in 2020.

The family of Gemma Winter was also introduced. Paul Foreman, David Platt's old cellmate, re-appeared and was revealed to be Gemma's twin brother. Paul was the focal point of a storyline about historic child sex abuse which helped win actor Peter Ash the National Television Award for Best Newcomer in 2020. Their rough diamond mother Bernie Winter was also introduced as Gemma and Chesney Brown prepared to welcome quadruplets. Bernie was played by Jane Hazlegrove, who had previously played Sue Clayton in 1985 - the first Coronation Street actor to be a main cast member in two different roles. In October, Gemma went into labour in a cable car in Llandudno and gave birth to Aled, Bryn, Carys, Llio. Rather than the usual practice whereby each baby was played by one set of twins, twins Charlotte and James Holt and triplets Arthur, Lily and Lucy Taylor initially shared the parts of all four quads, with scenes featuring all of them together kept to a minimum for ease of filming.

Two characters solved a mystery that led them to family they never knew they had. In January, Sylvia Goodwin was killed off, six years after Stephanie Cole last played the role. An inscription on Sylvia's ring led Roy Cropper to his half-brother Richard Lucas, who suffered from pulmonary fibrosis. After Richard's death, Roy's goth niece Nina Lucas came to live with him, with Mollie Gallagher joining the main cast.

In August, Emma Brooker was revealed to be the daughter of erstwhile Coronation Street regular Fiona Middleton. Angela Griffin reprised the role she last played in 1998 firstly in a video message and then a video chat with Emma, both recorded at MediaCity studios. The connection between the characters was made so that Steve McDonald, Fiona's ex-boyfriend, could be unveiled as Emma's real father, giving the popular newcomer ties to one of the programme's main families.

Turmoil for the Platts and Barlows

Lewis Archer died mysteriously on New Year's Day. The conman played by Nigel Havers had appeared intermittently since 2009 and returned for a final six months in 2018. In death, Lewis was blamed for stealing £80,000 from Audrey Roberts, a crime actually committed by Nick Tilsley. Nick and David then used the money to set up Trim Up North, a new barber shop in Victoria Street. In a Platt-centric Britain's Got Talent week, the family holidayed at a spa lodge where comedic shenanigans involving Gail Rodwell stalking TV presenter Lorraine Kelly (guest starring as herself) gave way to more dramatic scenes where David confessed everything to his gran.

In July, a remorseful David went to prison for his role in the fraud, while Nick received a suspended sentence. Upon his release, David married his partner Shona. Josh Tucker made a brief return while David was in prison, with David passing up the opportunity to kill his rapist during a prison riot in order to see him answer for his crime. As financial pressures had forced Audrey to sell her share of the salon to Claudia Colby (with Maria Connor owning the rest), David made amends by giving his gran the barber shop. Helen Worth took a summer break in the midst of the drama, with Gail booking a one-way ticket to Thailand in order to get away from her family. Her break was not announced in advance, leading to speculation that the actress had quit the programme [14].

Jimmi Harkishin was also given a two-month break in the middle of the year as a reward for completing two decades as Dev Alahan [15]. The Alahans spent the time in India with an ailing Ravi Desai. Meanwhile, the little-seen Alahan twins started appearing more with the beginning of Asha's body image struggles. At the end of the year, Zennon Ditchett quit the role of Aadi in order to concentrate on his school work. He made his final appearance in October [16].

Two other key storylines revolved around the Barlows. In January, Amy Barlow was revealed to be pregnant at fourteen after losing her virginity to Tyler Jefferies. After a few weeks, Amy decided that she wasn't ready to be a mother and aborted the child. In the same month, Daniel and Sinead Osbourne's son Bertie was born. Due to his premature birth, Bertie was portrayed by a prosthetic baby until March when Ellis Blain and Elias and Rufus Morgan-Smith took over the part.

Sinead Osbourne's cervical cancer received critical acclaim

Sinead's cervical cancer storyline reached an apparent conclusion in July when the cancer went into remission. Two months later, on their wedding day a lump was found on Sinead's neck which signalled the cancer's return. The episode in which Sinead was notified that her condition was terminal contained a ten-minute two-hander between Sinead and Daniel. Sinead's death was not anticipated when the storyline began in 2018 however it triggered Katie McGlynn's resignation from the programme, as the actress felt that her character dying would be more true to life [17]. The character passed away in October after recording videos for Bertie to watch as he grew up; these videos would be seen multiple times over the coming months.

Also in October, Sophie Webster went to travel around Asia for a few months as Brooke Vincent embarked on maternity leave, while in August Fiz and Hope Stape returned to Weatherfield after Jennie McAlpine had her baby. Characters leaving the street included Jude, Angie and George Appleton in January, while Nicola Thorp and Sue Devaney made short-term returns as Nicola Rubinstein and Debbie Webster respectively. Having last played her role in 1985, Devaney became the actress with the longest gap between appearances in the same part, taking the record from Sally Ann Matthews.

Viewing figures

Ratings chart for the year

While ratings were down, in accordance with general TV trends, Coronation Street maintained a strong chart performance with none of the 281 episodes dropping outside the top 20 and 14 episodes reaching number one, the most since 2010. The highest-rated episode of the year was 9678 on 28th January, with an audience of 8.23m viewers. The episode dealt mostly with Amy Barlow's pregnancy. This was the lowest peak of any year to date.

A drop of 810k viewers on 2018 resulted in an average of 6.79 million viewers for the year, losing nearly all of the gains made in 2016 and 2017. This was the second-lowest average ever after 2015 (and it is notable that the latter year's figures did not include ITV+1 and ITV HD).

The drops were consistent throughout the year, reaching their greatest magnitude in March which lost 1.2m viewers from the same month in 2018 despite the high-profile Underworld roof collapse airing that month.

Episodes

#	Ep. No.	Date	Part	Writer	Director	Viewing Figures	Chart Position
1	9654/5	Tuesday 1st January		Simon Crowther	Tony Prescott	7,169,059	13
2	9656	Wednesday 2nd January	1	Joe Turner	Tony Prescott	8,133,968	5
3	9657	Wednesday 2nd January	2	Joe Turner	Tony Prescott	7,254,163	12
4	9658	Friday 4th January	1	Steven Fay	Alan Grint	7,749,392	7
5	9659	Friday 4th January	2	Cameron McAllister	Alan Grint	7,747,194	8
6	9660	Monday 7th January	1	Jan McVerry	Alan Grint	7,821,802	7
7	9661	Monday 7th January	2	Carmel Morgan	Alan Grint	7,420,738	14
8	9662	Wednesday 9th January	1	Jonathan Harvey	Brett Fallis	7,737,987	9
9	9663	Wednesday 9th January	2	Jonathan Harvey	Brett Fallis	7,562,275	12
10	9664	Friday 11th January	1	Ian Kershaw	Brett Fallis	7,750,093	8
11	9665	Friday 11th January	2	Cameron McAllister	Brett Fallis	7,603,019	11
12	9666	Monday 14th January	1	David Isaac	Sean Healy	7,804,262	5
13	9667	Monday 14th January	2	David Isaac	Sean Healy	7,767,454	7
14	9668	Wednesday 16th January	1	Alasdair Morrison	Sean Healy	7,979,793	2
15	9669	Wednesday 16th January	2	Jan McVerry	Sean Healy	7,548,621	12
16	9670	Friday 18th January	1	Sam Holdsworth	Nic Phillips	7,721,117	8
17	9671	Friday 18th January	2	Damon Alexis-Rochefort	Nic Phillips	7,573,574	11
18	9672	Monday 21st January	1	Susan Oudot	Nic Phillips	7,877,491	5
19	9673	Monday 21st January	2	Susan Oudot	Nic Phillips	7,819,167	6
20	9674	Wednesday 23rd January	1	Joe Turner	Matt Hilton	7,694,558	7
21	9675	Wednesday 23rd January	2	Joe Turner	Matt Hilton	7,377,400	10
22	9676	Friday 25th January	1	Steven Fay	Matt Hilton	7,486,326	9
23	9677	Friday 25th January	2	Jayne Hollinson	Matt Hilton	7,032,794	11
24	9678	Monday 28th January	1	Chris Fewtrell	Karl Neilson	8,231,439	2
25	9679	Monday 28th January	2	Chris Fewtrell	Karl Neilson	8,045,090	3
26	9680	Wednesday 30th January	1	Martin Allen	Karl Neilson	7,836,321	6
27	9681	Wednesday 30th January	2	Simon Crowther	Karl Neilson	7,335,062	10
28	9682	Friday 1st February	1	Owen Lloyd-Fox	Simon Ferguson	7,423,806	9
29	9683	Friday 1st February	2	Owen Lloyd-Fox	Simon Ferguson	6,851,300	14
30	9684	Monday 4th February	1	Ella Greenhill	Simon Ferguson	7,797,309	4
31	9685	Monday 4th February	2	Mark Burt	Simon Ferguson	7,498,651	7
32	9686	Wednesday 6th February	1	Cameron McAllister	Tim Royle	7,594,826	6
33	9687	Wednesday 6th February	2	Ella Greenhill	Tim Royle	7,143,312	10
34	9688	Friday 8th February	1	Sam Holdsworth	Tim Royle	7,764,238	5
35	9689	Friday 8th February	2	Sam Holdsworth	Tim Royle	7,392,049	9
36	9690	Monday 11th February	1	Susan Oudot	Abe Juckes	7,635,316	3
37	9691	Monday 11th February	2	Susan Oudot	Abe Juckes	7,484,334	4
38	9692	Wednesday 13th February	1	Owen Lloyd-Fox	Abe Juckes	7,321,039	6
39	9693	Wednesday 13th February	2	Owen Lloyd-Fox	Abe Juckes	6,423,902	12
40	9694	Friday 15th February	1	Mark Wadlow	David Moor	7,272,878	7
41	9695	Friday 15th February	2	Jonathan Harvey	David Moor	6,939,322	8
42	9696	Monday 18th February	1	David Isaac	David Moor	7,302,659	4
43	9697	Monday 18th February	2	David Isaac	David Moor	6,893,995	6
44	9698	Wednesday 20th February		John Kerr	Audrey Cooke	7,323,131	3
45	9699/700	Friday 22nd February		Julie Jones Carmel Morgan	Audrey Cooke	7,022,793	5
46	9701	Monday 25th February	1	Ian Kershaw	Audrey Cooke	7,309,363	3
47	9702	Monday 25th February	2	Steven Fay	Audrey Cooke	7,000,378	6
48	9703	Wednesday 27th February	1	Mark Burt	Nickie Lister	7,292,901	4
49	9704	Wednesday 27th February	2	Mark Burt	Nickie Lister	6,233,807	12
50	9705/6	Friday 1st March		Chris Fewtrell	Nickie Lister	7,164,117	5
51	9707	Monday 4th March	1	Ellen Taylor	Neil Alderton	7,581,150	1
52	9708	Monday 4th March	2	Ellen Taylor	Neil Alderton	7,349,906	3
53	9709	Wednesday 6th March	1	Simon Crowther	Becky Wild	7,375,471	2
54	9710	Wednesday 6th March	2	Simon Crowther	Becky Wild	6,511,854	9
55	9711	Thursday 7th March		Martin Allen	Neil Alderton	6,837,172	5
56	9712	Friday 8th March	1	Cameron McAllister	Suri Krishnamma	6,959,893	4
57	9713	Friday 8th March	2	Alasdair Morrison	Suri Krishnamma	6,580,416	7
58	9714	Monday 11th March	1	Mark Wadlow	Suri Krishnamma	7,472,728	2
59	9715	Monday 11th March	2	Susan Oudot	Suri Krishnamma	6,980,106	6
60	9716	Wednesday 13th March	1	Jonathan Harvey	David Kester	7,150,086	4
61	9717	Wednesday 13th March	2	Jan McVerry	David Kester	5,891,564	15
62	9718/9	Friday 15th March		John Kerr David Isaac	David Kester	6,658,238	9
63	9720	Monday 18th March	1	Joe Turner	Brett Fallis	7,728,591	2
64	9721	Monday 18th March	2	Joe Turner	Brett Fallis	7,511,638	3
65	9722	Wednesday 20th March	1	Owen Lloyd-Fox	Brett Fallis	7,752,452	1
66	9723	Wednesday 20th March	2	Owen Lloyd-Fox	Brett Fallis	7,304,617	5
67	9724/5	Sunday 24th March		Julie Jones	Alan Grint	7,101,247	6
68	9726	Wednesday 27th March	1	Ella Greenhill	Alan Grint	7,431,315	2
69	9727	Wednesday 27th March	2	Sam Holdsworth	Alan Grint	6,732,149	5
70	9728/9	Friday 29th March		Ian Kershaw Jayne Hollinson	Tony Prescott	6,987,246	4
71	9730/1	Sunday 31st March		Martin Allen Steven Fay	Tony Prescott	6,176,655	6
72	9732	Monday 1st April	1	Ellen Taylor	Matt Hilton	7,391,312	3
73	9733	Monday 1st April	2	Debbie Oates	Matt Hilton	7,202,331	5
74	9734	Wednesday 3rd April	1	Carmel Morgan	Matt Hilton	7,178,869	6
75	9735	Wednesday 3rd April	2	Damon Alexis-Rochefort	Matt Hilton	6,485,829	8
76	9736/7	Friday 5th April		Chris Fewtrell	Matt Hilton	7,025,519	7
77	9738	Monday 8th April	1	Susan Oudot	David Moor	7,277,646	3
78	9739	Monday 8th April	2	Susan Oudot	David Moor	6,689,789	7
79	9740	Wednesday 10th April	1	Ian Kershaw	David Moor	6,832,383	4
80	9741	Wednesday 10th April	2	Sam Holdsworth	David Moor	6,242,455	10
81	9742/3	Friday 12th April		Jan McVerry	Diana Patrick	6,726,577	6
82	9744	Monday 15th April	1	Alasdair Morrison	Diana Patrick	7,252,355	3
83	9745	Monday 15th April	2	Owen Lloyd-Fox	Diana Patrick	6,976,388	4
84	9746	Wednesday 17th April	1	Cameron McAllister	Gill Wilkinson	6,894,793	5
85	9747	Wednesday 17th April	2	Simon Crowther	Gill Wilkinson	6,335,981	8
86	9748/9	Friday 19th April		Chris Fewtrell	Gill Wilkinson	6,355,879	7
87	9750	Monday 22nd April	1	David Isaac	Steve Finn	6,541,894	9
88	9751	Monday 22nd April	2	David Isaac	Steve Finn	6,575,610	7
89	9752	Wednesday 24th April	1	Mark Wadlow	Steve Finn	6,727,993	5
90	9753	Wednesday 24th April	2	Ella Greenhill	Steve Finn	6,281,445	12
91	9754	Friday 26th April	1	Julie Jones	Tim Royle	6,759,358	4
92	9755	Friday 26th April	2	Carmel Morgan	Tim Royle	6,656,871	6
93	9756	Monday 29th April	1	Jonathan Harvey	Tim Royle	7,024,657	4
94	9757	Monday 29th April	2	John Kerr	Tim Royle	6,906,378	5
95	9758	Wednesday 1st May	1	Mark Burt	Neil Alderton	7,202,473	3
96	9759	Wednesday 1st May	2	Jayne Hollinson	Neil Alderton	6,316,658	10
97	9760	Friday 3rd May	1	Joe Turner	Neil Alderton	6,829,282	6
98	9761	Friday 3rd May	2	Joe Turner	Neil Alderton	6,663,014	7
99	9762	Monday 6th May	1	Damon Alexis-Rochefort	Neil Alderton	6,612,007	6
100	9763	Monday 6th May	2	Damon Alexis-Rochefort	Neil Alderton	6,597,989	7
101	9764	Wednesday 8th May	1	Debbie Oates	Abe Jukes	6,984,348	2
102	9765	Wednesday 8th May	2	Debbie Oates	Abe Jukes	6,220,791	13
103	9766	Friday 10th May	1	Ellen Taylor	Abe Jukes	6,764,864	4
104	9767	Friday 10th May	2	Owen Lloyd-Fox	Abe Jukes	6,812,329	3
105	9768	Monday 13th May	1	Sam Holdsworth	Lee Trevor	6,831,468	3
106	9769	Monday 13th May	2	David Isaac	Lee Trevor	6,517,727	7
107	9770	Wednesday 15th May	1	Alasdair Morrison	Ian Bevitt	6,583,889	6
108	9771	Wednesday 15th May	2	John Kerr	Ian Bevitt	6,299,254	10
109	9772	Friday 17th May	1	Joe Turner	Suri Krishnamma	6,677,927	5
110	9773	Friday 17th May	2	Cameron McAllister	Suri Krishnamma	6,395,943	8
111	9774	Monday 20th May	1	Susan Oudot	Suri Krishnamma	6,899,070	2
112	9775	Monday 20th May	2	Jonathan Harvey	Suri Krishnamma	6,715,864	4
113	9776	Wednesday 22nd May	1	Mark Wadlow	Brett Fallis	6,757,501	3
114	9777	Wednesday 22nd May	2	Steven Fay	Brett Fallis	6,361,173	7
115	9778	Friday 24th May	1	Julie Jones	Brett Fallis	6,631,253	5
116	9779	Friday 24th May	2	Ian Kershaw	Brett Fallis	6,402,483	6
117	9780	Monday 27th May		Damon Alexis-Rochefort	David Kester	7,374,852	5
118	9781	Tuesday 28th May		Chris Fewtrell	David Kester	7,206,169	7
119	9782	Wednesday 29th May		Chris Fewtrell	David Kester	7,192,840	8
120	9783	Thursday 30th May		Jan McVerry	David Kester	7,132,981	9
121	9784	Friday 31st May		Carmel Morgan	David Kester	6,750,042	11
122	9785	Monday 3rd June	1	Martin Allen	Tim Finn	6,809,026	3
123	9786	Monday 3rd June	2	Jayne Hollinson	Tim Finn	6,726,191	4
124	9787	Wednesday 5th June	1	Simon Crowther	Tim Finn	6,531,157	6
125	9788	Wednesday 5th June	2	Ella Greenhill	Tim Finn	6,596,160	5
126	9789/90	Friday 7th June		Martin Allen Julie Jones	Gill Wilkinson	7,118,329	1
127	9791	Monday 10th June	1	Mark Wadlow	Kevin Boyle	7,279,097	2
128	9792	Monday 10th June	2	David Isaac	Gill Wilkinson	7,046,214	3
129	9793	Wednesday 12th June	1	Steven Fay	Sasha Ransome	7,360,944	1
130	9794	Wednesday 12th June	2	Damon Alexis-Rochefort	Sasha Ransome	6,559,023	5
131	9795/6	Friday 14th June		Susan Oudot Jayne Hollinson	Sasha Ransome	6,646,616	4
132	9797	Monday 17th June	1	Debbie Oates	Clive Arnold	7,289,376	1
133	9798	Monday 17th June	2	Debbie Oates	Clive Arnold	6,908,546	3
134	9799	Wednesday 19th June	1	Owen Lloyd-Fox	Clive Arnold	7,082,204	2
135	9800	Wednesday 19th June	2	Owen Lloyd-Fox	Clive Arnold	6,500,012	5
136	9801/2	Friday 21st June		Alasdair Morrison Jan McVerry	Adrian Bean	6,567,496	4
137	9803	Monday 24th June	1	Cameron McAllister	Adrian Bean	7,117,215	1
138	9804	Monday 24th June	2	Ellen Taylor	Adrian Bean	6,811,391	2
139	9805	Wednesday 26th June	1	John Kerr	Tim Royle	6,429,861	3
140	9806	Wednesday 26th June	2	Mark Burt	Tim Royle	6,021,937	8
141	9807/8	Friday 28th June		Ian Kershaw Simon Crowther	Tim Royle	6,127,525	7
142	9809	Monday 1st July	1	Ella Greenhill	Penelope Shales-Slyne	6,552,743	2
143	9810	Monday 1st July	2	Chris Fewtrell	Penelope Shales-Slyne	6,472,797	3
144	9811	Wednesday 3rd July	1	Sam Holdsworth	Penelope Shales-Slyne	6,357,176	4
145	9812	Wednesday 3rd July	2	Carmel Morgan	Penelope Shales-Slyne	5,748,304	13
146	9813/4	Friday 5th July		Jonathan Harvey Alasdair Morrison	Lee Trevor	6,246,696	5
147	9815	Monday 8th July	1	Joe Turner	Becky Wild	6,587,309	2
148	9816	Monday 8th July	2	Damon Alexis-Rochefort	Becky Wild	6,457,942	3
149	9817	Wednesday 10th July	1	David Isaac	Suri Krishnamma	6,599,346	1
150	9818	Wednesday 10th July	2	David Isaac	Suri Krishnamma	6,184,365	4
151	9819/20	Friday 12th July		Susan Oudot Ian Kershaw	Suri Krishnamma	6,183,007	5
152	9821	Monday 15th July	1	Ella Greenhill	Ian Bevitt	6,353,686	4
153	9822	Monday 15th July	2	Mark Burt	Ian Bevitt	6,377,452	3
154	9823	Wednesday 17th July	1	Ellen Taylor	Ian Bevitt	6,754,656	1
155	9824	Wednesday 17th July	2	Ellen Taylor	Ian Bevitt	6,252,716	5
156	9825/6	Friday 19th July		Cameron McAllister Steven Fay	Tim Finn	6,570,409	2
157	9827	Monday 22nd July	1	Jayne Hollinson	Tim Finn	6,591,688	1
158	9828	Monday 22nd July	2	Martin Allen	Tim Finn	6,456,099	2
159	9829	Wednesday 24th July	1	Julie Jones	Abe Juckes	6,243,726	5
160	9830	Wednesday 24th July	1	Owen Lloyd-Fox	Abe Juckes	5,867,887	9
161	9831	Friday 26th July	1	Simon Crowther	Abe Juckes	6,347,521	4
162	9832	Friday 26th July	2	John Kerr	Abe Juckes	6,455,537	3
163	9833	Monday 29th July	1	Chris Fewtrell	Steve Finn	6,522,135	2
164	9834	Monday 29th July	2	Chris Fewtrell	Steve Finn	6,370,221	3
165	9835	Wednesday 31st July	1	Mark Wadlow	Steve Finn	6,634,924	1
166	9836	Wednesday 31st July	2	Jan McVerry	Steve Finn	6,123,460	6
167	9837	Friday 2nd August	1	Jan McVerry	Clive Arnold	6,039,493	9
168	9838	Friday 2nd August	2	Mark Wadlow	Clive Arnold	6,138,093	5
169	9839	Monday 5th August	1	Cameron McAllister	Clive Arnold	6,773,488	1
170	9840	Monday 5th August	2	John Kerr	Clive Arnold	6,397,952	3
171	9841	Wednesday 7th August	1	Joe Turner	Vicky Thomas	6,177,021	5
172	9842	Wednesday 7th August	2	Joe Turner	Vicky Thomas	5,932,071	9
173	9843	Friday 9th August	1	Simon Crowther	Vicky Thomas	6,493,724	2
174	9844	Friday 9th August	2	Simon Crowther	Vicky Thomas	6,381,208	4
175	9845	Monday 12th August	1	Susan Oudot	Gill Wilkinson	6,478,561	2
176	9846	Monday 12th August	2	Chris Fewtrell	Gill Wilkinson	6,295,993	4
177	9847	Wednesday 14th August	1	Ellen Taylor	GIll Wilkinson	6,586,753	1
178	9848	Wednesday 14th August	2	David Isaac	Emma Lindley	5,924,234	8
179	9849	Friday 16th August	1	Damon Alexis-Rochefort	Duncan Foster	6,328,954	3
180	9850	Friday 16th August	2	Owen Lloyd-Fox	Duncan Foster	5,965,979	7
181	9851	Monday 19th August	1	Jonathan Harvey	Duncan Foster	6,665,501	1
182	9852	Monday 19th August	2	Carmel Morgan	Duncan Foster	6,458,821	2
183	9853	Wednesday 21st August	1	Debbie Oates	Durno Johnston	6,421,252	3
184	9854	Wednesday 21st August	2	Debbie Oates	Durno Johnston	5,963,820	7
185	9855	Friday 23rd August	1	Julie Jones	Durno Johnston	6,155,974	5
186	9856	Friday 23rd August	2	Steven Fay	Durno Johnston	6,091,132	6
187	9857/8	Monday 26th August		Alasdair Morrison Sam Holdsworth	Peter Rose	6,177,305	5
188	9859	Wednesday 28th August	1	Mark Burt	Peter Rose	6,615,183	3
189	9860	Wednesday 28th August	2	Martin Allen	Peter Rose	6,030,139	7
190	9861	Friday 30th August	1	Mark Wadlow	Ian Bevitt	6,179,022	4
191	9862	Friday 30th August	2	Cameron McAllister	Ian Bevitt	6,085,042	6
192	9863	Monday 2nd September	1	Ian Kershaw	Ian Bevitt	6,773,468	4
193	9864	Monday 2nd September	2	Alasdair Morrison	Ian Bevitt	6,531,513	6
194	9865	Wednesday 4th September	1	Susan Oudot	Sarah Kendell	6,555,404	5
195	9866	Wednesday 4th September	2	Susan Oudot	Sarah Kendell	5,848,069	13
196	9867	Friday 6th September	1	Simon Crowther	Sarah Kendell	6,221,030	8
197	9868	Friday 6th September	2	Simon Crowther	Sarah Kendell	6,150,601	9
198	9869	Monday 9th September	1	David Isaac	Mickey Jones	6,678,238	3
199	9870	Monday 9th September	2	Ellen Taylor	Mickey Jones	6,232,302	6
200	9871	Wednesday 11th September	1	Carmel Morgan	Mickey Jones	6,707,172	2
201	9872	Wednesday 11th September	2	Jan McVerry	Mickey Jones	6,343,745	4
202	9873/4	Friday 13th September		Sam Holdsworth	Mickey Jones	6,212,370	7
203	9875	Monday 16th September	1	Steven Fay	John Anderson	6,849,766	3
204	9876	Monday 16th September	2	Mark Burt	John Anderson	6,416,936	6
205	9877	Wednesday 18th September	1	Julie Jones	John Anderson	6,552,673	4
206	9878	Wednesday 18th September	2	Julie Jones	John Anderson	5,890,081	10
207	9879/80	Friday 20th September		Damon Alexis-Rochefort	Abe Juckes	6,357,123	7
208	9881	Monday 23rd September	1	John Kerr	Abe Juckes	6,854,893	4
209	9882	Monday 23rd September	2	Jayne Hollinson	Abe Juckes	6,562,019	7
210	9883	Wednesday 25th September	1	Joe Turner	Steve Finn	6,358,277	9
211	9884	Wednesday 25th September	2	Chris Fewtrell	Steve Finn	5,951,291	13
212	9885/6	Friday 27th September		Owen Lloyd-Fox Jonathan Harvey	Steve Finn	6,504,276	8
213	9887	Monday 30th September	1	Sam Holdsworth	Becky Wild	6,504,040	6
214	9888	Monday 30th September	2	Susan Oudot	Becky Wild	6,159,925	12
215	9889	Wednesday 2nd October	1	John Kerr	Becky Wild	6,352,349	9
216	9890	Wednesday 2nd October	2	John Kerr	Becky Wild	6,020,660	14
217	9891/2	Friday 4th October		Mark Burt Ian Kershaw	Vicky Thomas	6,474,777	7
218	9893	Monday 7th October	1	Cameron McAllister	Vicky Thomas	7,214,504	5
219	9894	Monday 7th October	2	Alasdair Morrison	Vicky Thomas	6,758,342	7
220	9895	Wednesday 9th October	1	Jan McVerry	Duncan Foster	6,816,564	6
221	9896	Wednesday 9th October	2	Julie Jones	Duncan Foster	6,266,784	13
222	9897	Wednesday 16th October	1	David Isaac	Duncan Foster	6,891,468	4
223	9898	Wednesday 16th October	2	Simon Crowther	Duncan Foster	6,294,916	9
224	9899/900	Friday 18th October		Martin Allen Mark Wadlow	Tim O'Mara	6,640,771	7
225	9901	Monday 21st October	1	Joe Turner	Tim O'Mara	7,072,592	7
226	9902	Monday 21st October	2	Owen Lloyd-Fox	Tim O'Mara	6,755,269	10
227	9903	Wednesday 23rd October	1	Jayne Hollinson	Michael Lacey	7,026,784	8
228	9904	Wednesday 23rd October	2	Debbie Oates	Michael Lacey	6,488,690	14
229	9905	Thursday 24th October		Jonathan Harvey	Michael Lacey	6,240,000	17
230	9906/7	Friday 25th October		Ellen Taylor	Michael Lacey	7,134,706	6
231	9908	Monday 28th October	1	Carmel Morgan	Peter Rose	7,344,108	7
232	9909	Monday 28th October	2	Steven Fay	Peter Rose	6,830,099	10
233	9910	Wednesday 30th October	1	Damon Alexis-Rochefort	Peter Rose	7,193,735	8
234	9911	Wednesday 30th October	2	Chris Fewtrell	Peter Rose	6,611,347	12
235	9912	Thursday 31st October		Owen Lloyd-Fox	Durno Johnston	6,473,909	15
236	9913/4	Friday 1st November		David Isaac	Durno Johnston	6,726,140	11
237	9915	Monday 4th November	1	Simon Crowther	Durno Johnston	7,059,663	6
238	9916	Monday 4th November	2	Simon Crowther	Durno Johnston	6,705,342	8
239	9917	Wednesday 6th November	1	Sam Holdsworth	Alan Grint	6,880,929	7
240	9918	Wednesday 6th November	2	Sam Holdsworth	Alan Grint	6,446,723	11
241	9919	Thursday 7th November		Damon Alexis-Rochefort	Alan Grint	6,049,000	16
242	9920/1	Friday 8th November		Chris Fewtrell	Alan Grint Alex Browning	6,504,644	9
243	9922	Monday 11th November	1	Alasdair Morrison	Judith Dine	7,051,148	6
244	9923	Monday 11th November	2	Alasdair Morrison	Judith Dine	6,813,501	11
245	9924	Wednesday 13th November	1	Susan Oudot	Judith Dine	6,911,388	8
246	9925	Wednesday 13th November	2	Susan Oudot	Judith Dine	6,229,843	15
247	9926/7	Friday 15th November		Julie Jones Steven Fay	Steve Finn	6,358,019	12
248	9928	Monday 18th November	1	Joe Turner	Steve Finn	7,041,954	13
249	9929	Monday 18th November	2	Joe Turner	Steve Finn	6,698,000	16
250	9930	Wednesday 20th November	1	John Kerr	John Anderson	6,898,330	14
251	9931	Wednesday 20th November	2	Carmel Morgan	John Anderson	6,369,000	18
252	9932	Friday 22nd November	1	Cameron McAllister	John Anderson	6,556,000	17
253	9933	Friday 22nd November	2	Ian Kershaw	John Anderson	6,193,000	19
254	9934	Monday 25th November	1	Jonathan Harvey	George C. Siougas	6,881,134	14
255	9935	Monday 25th November	2	Jonathan Harvey	George C. Siougas	6,890,836	13
256	9936	Wednesday 27th November	1	Martin Allen	George C. Siougas	7,046,381	12
257	9937	Wednesday 27th November	2	Mark Wadlow	George C. Siougas	5,906,000	22
258	9938/9	Friday 29th November		Damon Alexis-Rochefort	Ian Barber	6,736,010	15
259	9940	Monday 2nd December	1	Ian Kershaw	Ian Barber	7,006,432	13
260	9941	Monday 2nd December	2	John Kerr	Ian Barber	6,979,866	14
261	9942	Wednesday 4th December	1	Ellen Taylor	Duncan Foster	7,083,209	12
262	9943	Wednesday 4th December	2	David Isaac	Duncan Foster	6,618,000	16
263	9944	Friday 6th December	1	Alasdair Morrison	Duncan Foster	6,813,554	15
264	9945	Friday 6th December	2	Jayne Hollinson	Duncan Foster	6,336,000	17
265	9946/7	Monday 9th December		Simon Crowther	Sean Healy	6,872,198	5
266	9948/9	Wednesday 11th December		Chris Fewtrell	Sean Healy	6,926,964	4
267	9950/1	Friday 13th December		Susan Oudot	Tim O'Mara	6,557,796	7
268	9952	Monday 16th December	1	Cameron McAllister	Tim O'Mara	7,135,774	2
269	9953	Monday 16th December	2	Julie Jones	Tim O'Mara	7,119,234	3
270	9954	Wednesday 18th December	1	Martin Allen	Nickie Lister	6,850,329	5
271	9955	Wednesday 18th December	2	Mark Burt	Nickie Lister	6,273,672	8
272	9956/7	Friday 20th December		Jan McVerry Steven Fay	Nickie Lister	6,669,286	6
273	9958	Monday 23rd December	1	Mark Wadlow	Peter Rose	7,008,681	7
274	9959	Monday 23rd December	2	Joe Turner	Peter Rose	6,351,306	15
275	9960	Tuesday 24th December		Jonathan Harvey	Peter Rose	5,988,000	17
276	9961/2	Wednesday 25th December		Debbie Oates	Peter Rose	6,879,951	8
277	9963	Thursday 26th December		Alasdair Morrison	Judith Dine	6,768,219	10
278	9964	Friday 27th December		Sam Holdsworth	Judith Dine	7,383,620	4
279	9965	Monday 30th December	1	John Kerr	Judith Dine	7,061,554	4
280	9966	Monday 30th December	2	Martin Allen	Judith Dine	7,059,541	5
281	9967	Tuesday 31st December		Cameron McAllister	Michael Lacey	6,537,852	11

Storylines

January

• Lewis Archer fails to turn up for a dinner date with Audrey Roberts and she and Gail Rodwell find him dead at 5 Grasmere Drive, holding an engagement ring. The £80,000 inheritance money is cleared out of Audrey’s account, and she accepts that Lewis must have been out to defraud her. The police find a CCTV image of a young woman taking cash out of the account before it was cleared. David Platt is disappointed when his gran announces she is not retiring from the salon. Hearing that Claudia Colby is spending money on her business, Audrey attends Lewis's funeral and accuses her of defrauding her and reports her to the police. Claudia is able to prove the source of her money. It is Nick Tilsley who has emptied the account, wanting to be free of Elsa Tilsley and back with Leanne Battersby. He transfers £30,000 into the Underworld account before writing Elsa a cheque for the amount which she accepts to divorce him. Carla Connor is told by Nick that he’d hid the money from his wife. Natalie Watkins, a waitress from Nick’s business in Nottingham and the woman who withdrew the money on Nick’s instructions, blackmails him for £2,000. David recognises her from the CCTV footage after seeing her talking with Nick. At first, he orders his brother to come clean, but feeling bitterly let down when Audrey sells half the salon to Claudia, he forces Nick to join him in a partnership in their own barber’s shop on Victoria Street using the remainder of the stolen money.
• To raise money for Sinead Osbourne, Beth and Kirk Sutherland plan to open a pub in their flat, charging money for entry, but Kirk buys alcohol free beers by mistake. Sinead is told that her aggressive tumour has grown to the point where she needs to begin immediate radiotherapy treatment which means her baby must be born by caesarean that day. After a touch and go operation, the premature baby is born but with an underdeveloped bowel which requires an operation. Feeling the immense pressure, Daniel Osbourne is reconciled with Ken Barlow. The baby is named Bertie.
• The Rovers starts to lose custom as the residents gossip about Jenny Connor's part in Liz McDonald's accident. Liz is released from Weatherfield General. Jenny pleads with her not to prosecute Johnny Connor, and Liz deduces from her manner that she was the one responsible for the hit and run. The Connors are arrested. Johnny is still willing to take the blame as he thinks he will get off due to his MS. He is charged with perverting the course of justice.
• Emma Brooker grows concerned that Chesney Brown is still carrying a torch for Gemma Winter. Finding out about Emma's fears, Gemma pushes Chesney to do something nice for his girlfriend but he ends up helping her when she is stalked by a mysterious figure. It turns out to be Paul Foreman, her twin brother who has just been released from Highfield Prison. Gemma is displeased to find out he's got a job at Underworld after Billy Mayhew interceded with Carla to take him on. Emma is upset when she sees Chesney comforting her. Trying hard to get away from her past life, Gemma does her best to get her brother fired but he threatens to hurt Chesney if she succeeds. Chesney tries to find if Gemma fancies him but, mindful of Paul’s threats, she rejects him. Izzy Armstrong fancies Paul but it is Billy who he starts to flirt with. Billy agrees to go out with him but then sees him with another man. Paul’s presence irks Gemma.
• Keen to make amends, Gina Seddon and Imran Habeeb work together to help Sally Metcalfe. She searches Duncan Radfield’s flat and sees him making a call to his wife May, alive and living in Costa Rica. The police are informed but the address abroad is found to be empty. In the meantime, Sally is given a bashing by Marcia after Abi Franklin is released. Seb Franklin refuses to let his mother live at No.11. An attempt to turn Olivia Radfield against her father to make him confess fails. Getting desperate, Tim Metcalfe confronts Duncan who makes a dash for it and is run over by a van. His hospitalisation brings his wife from Central America to her husband’s bedside. Following a talk with Gina, who makes her see her how Sally is suffering, May tells her husband that their scam to get funds to help with her post-stroke treatment has gone too far. Duncan confesses and is arrested while Sally is set free just in time to save her from being knifed by Marcia. She finds it hard to adjust to her normal life and while she refuses to forgive Gina, she becomes firm friends with Abi, grateful for her protection. She asks her to move into No.4 with her and Tim.
• Peter Barlow pulls out of buying the snooker hall. To help him achieve his travelling ambition, Carla buys him a boat to do up and sail round the Caribbean. Initially Simon Barlow helps him, but Peter stops him when Leanne informs him that his son’s school grades are falling. Coached by Sally, Abi goes for a job interview which she fails due to her prison record. Peter gives her a job helping do up his boat and the two soon fall for each other.
• Gary Windass is forced to sell yard tools and cuts Seb’s hours, which jeopardises his efforts to adopt the twins. Gary loses a big job and confesses to Sarah Platt that he is facing eviction from 8 Victoria Court. They dump themselves on David at No.8, while Bethany Platt moves into the salon flat to give them room. Audrey has dry rot in her house and moves into No.8 whilst it is fixed. She initially gives the job to fix it to Gary who clears his schedules for her and is then disappointed when she finds a cheaper quote to meet her own precarious finances. Gary and Sarah have to sleep on lilos in the living room. Sarah is annoyed when Gary is cheered up by a visit from Nicola and Zack Rubinstein. Gary turns down Nicola’s offer to miss some maintenance payments. Joe Haslam suggests he take six months' tax-free building work in Qatar but a furious Sarah kiboshes the plan. Seeking solace on a girls’ night out with Izzy, Nicola and Bethany, Sarah ends up with Adam Barlow at his flat for a nightcap where he tries to kiss her. She recoils and runs out. Adam gives chase and Seb intervenes, getting himself a punch in the face for his pains. Sarah guilt trips Adam into helping said at the twins’ custody hearing. Abi opposes the application, genuinely feeling that her two youngest children would be better off with their new adoptive parents. Seb is arguing with her and Eileen Grimshaw when an important customer calls at Gary’s yard and declines to do business as a result of what he is seen. As a result, Gary sacks Seb who subsequently loses the custody hearing as he cannot provide for his siblings.
• Mary Taylor's private detective traces Jude Appleton to a B&B in Blackpool. She visits with Roy Cropper and her son immediately asks her for £800 cash. They discover he is posing as surgeon under Ken's name. Nevertheless, Mary hands him the money, but he flees without paying his bill. A saddened Mary accepts that he will never be the son that she wanted. Angie Appleton gets a job with a promotion back in South Africa and Mary tells her to take it, knowing it will be good for her and George. The two depart the country.
• Brian Packham gives up teaching and Rita Tanner takes him on at The Kabin though she soon regrets her action when he messes up deliveries on his first day.

Steve confronts one of the suspected fathers of Amy's baby.

• To stave off Steve McDonald’s constant demands for sex Tracy pretends to want a baby but then finds she has actually come round to the idea. Amy Barlow finds that she is pregnant. She tries to arrange her own abortion through a clinic, but she's told it is a two-part process and her parents will notice. She confides in Liz who encourages her to be upfront with Steve and Tracy. Steve especially goes ballistic and suspects both Aadi Alahan and Simon, confronting them, upsetting their fathers and broadcasting the girl’s condition into the process. She refuses to name the father but meets him - Tyler Jefferies - in secret to tell him that she is expecting. Tyler threatens Simon, wanting him to take the blame as Amy is underage. Amy is livid with Tyler’s lack of responsibility and humiliates him in front of his friends when they realise he had sex with an underage girl. Steve and Tracy realise who the true father is, and Steve suggests to Tracy that they adopt the child. Liz has misgivings and Adam warns them of the many legal hurdles that they will face. Vicky Jefferies hears her son boasting of his conquest and confronts Steve and Tracy asking for a DNA test, but retreats rapidly when they point out a positive result will mean he is guilty of statutory rape.
• Rana Habeeb's decree absolute comes through. She and Kate Connor face financial problems in having the wedding that they want.
• Roy goes missing on the anniversary of Hayley Cropper’s death, panicking Carla. He turns up having been spending time by himself trainspotting. Sylvia Goodwin has a sudden heart attack and dies whilst Roy is on his way to her in Hastings. He shows little grief at her death.
• Ryan Connor is disappointed when Bethany tells him that she sees him as nothing more than a mate.
• Tyrone Dobbs is concerned when Evelyn Plummer acts strangely and finds she has booked tickets to Paris with a man named James Woodgate. He follows her when she goes out and finds she is at James's house. He is a former neighbour of the family. Tyrone is stunned when James lets slip that Evelyn left him outside a police station when he was a baby. Evelyn tells him how his mother was a drug addict whose behaviour caused the death of her father. Unable to cope at the time with both rehabilitating her, and looking after a baby, she left him at the station. Unable to forgive her for leaving him to be brought up by the Dobbs, Tyrone tells her not return after her holiday but soon regrets his words when his gran leaves.

February

• Rita tells Jenny to start pulling herself together when she wallows in drink and self-misery. Johnny visits Eva Price before his trial, convinced that he's going to be sent down. Seeing Jenny in a drunken state, Liz advises her to get her act together before the trial. Rita tells Liz that the sequence of events are all her fault for sleeping with Johnny. With help from Gemma, Liz flits to Spain bringing the trial to an early conclusion as the prosecution has no witness. Johnny and Jenny resolve to try and make their marriage work.

Peter's boating dreams go up in flames.

• Abi and Seb have a last emotional meeting with the twins before they are taken away. In a rage at the development, Seb takes his temper out on everyone around him, revealing to Gary that Adam and Sarah were in the flat together. Sarah makes Gary understand how difficult it was for her to see him and Nicola together. Abi seeks solace in Peter's company with the two having frequent sex together, making Carla jealous and distracted. Abi ignores her friends’ warnings that she’s being used by Peter and asks him to take her on his voyage with him as first mate, but he gently refuses. He is offered work on a boat in Kefalonia and this time invites Abi along. Seb overhears Peter telling an upset Simon that Abi means nothing to him and, still blaming her for the loss of the twins, gleefully informs Abi. She takes solace in drink. Simon almost dies when the boat is set alight and Peter blames Abi who is questioned by the police, but Cathy Matthews gives her an alibi. The arsonist is Roy who was sleepwalking at the time. To protect her friend, Carla deletes the factory’s CCTV footage showing him accidentally knocking over a hurricane lamp and disposes of his paraffin-smelling clothes. Sarah finds the footage is missing and tells Peter that she suspects Carla of starting the fire. Roy realises his coat and slippers are missing and Kirk helpfully finds them for him in an Underworld bin. Roy questions Carla as to how they got there and hears the truth. He hands himself in to the police. Forced by Peter, Carla apologises to Abi, but it is not enough for Roy who tells his friend how disappointed he is in her, accusing her of setting Abi up because she is still in love with Peter. He orders her to move out of the flat.
• Gemma publicly accuses Paul when Summer Spellman’s laptop goes missing and is humiliated when it is found. Roy donates some of Sylvia’s items to charity and Paul steals a diamond ring from among the items to sell on to market trader Big Garth. Emma and Chesney help the twins get it back. Paul is touched that Gemma covered for him and lets him stay at Rita's flat. Rita quickly tires of his presence and Paul says he will stay in a bail hostel that is opening in the area. Some of the residents grow concerned about how close the hostel will be to them.
• Seeing that things are hopeless with Chesney, Emma steps back and lets him and Gemma get together. She reluctantly stands in for Gemma behind the bar to give the two of them time together but inadvertently locks the two lovers in the pub cellar for the night whilst they're having sex. An angry Jenny releases them the next day and tells Emma she will not employ her on the staff, but Gemma makes her relent after telling her that she owes them for getting Liz out of the country. Chesney and Gemma row when Joseph Brown repeats swear words that he has heard Gemma using. He tries to make up with a romantic meal but gets chilli juice in her eyes. They resolve to be just friends but find they are unable to keep their hands off each other.
• Norris Cole decides to go travelling with Emily Bishop and Freda Burgess and sells The Kabin. After thinking of buying it back, Rita resigns herself to the end of her working life. Brian and Cathy buy the business, and after struggling to run it, Brian asks Rita to stay on as manager.
• Adam feels in a rut and goes to see friends in Rome, saying he's going to be away for several months.
• Nick and David outrage the women in their family when they try to recruit only attractive women for the new barbers. The brothers argue when David insists on a stuffed weasel being one of the fixtures in the establishment.
• Dane Hibbs dies of a drugs overdose and Shona visits Clayton Hibbs to tell him the news. Her son begs for help in either being moved to an open prison to escape the frequent attacks on him, or for her to supply him with drugs to curry favour with the other inmates. She refuses and is honest with a sympathetic David about what’s happening. Drugs gangsters put pressure on Shona to comply, but Nick records their threats to pass on to the police unless they leave them alone. Clayton is attacked and hospitalised. He blames Shona for the incident. David overhears part of the conversation about the drugs between Nick and Shona and wonders what is going on between them. Shona plans to attend Dane’s funeral when she hears that Clayton will be allowed to attend on compassionate grounds. During the burial, Macca and his friends set Clayton free. Shona assures David she had nothing to do with his escape and will not help him to stay at large, but Nick expresses doubts, telling David about the drugs. Thinking she is putting his family at risk, David tells her to leave but Billy gets him to change his mind. Clayton gets in Shona’s car and tells her to drive and get him away from the men who are out to kill him.
• Roy is puzzled by the inscription "RP 01-03-59 Rhea" on Sylvia’s ring. Wanting Roy to get some sleep and not stress, Carla gets Brian involved in solving the mystery.
• Tyrone struggles to bring up Ruby Dobbs on his own and is delighted when Mary helps him. Kevin teases him that Mary has a crush on him, and Tyrone gets worried when he receives a Valentine's card whose handwriting matches that of Mary's. He tries to let her down gently when he tells her that he knows she has feelings for him, but he's taken aback by her outraged revelation that the card was from Ruby which Mary wrote to disguise the handwriting. He manages to restore the peace by inviting her to a special meal
• Vicky persuades Robert Preston to take her Tyler on as a pot washer at the Viaduct Bistro, infuriating the Barlows. Although Amy wants to ignore his presence, goes against her wishes and offers Tyler £5,000 to leave the area. He pushes her too far when he demands a higher sum, and she attacks him. Amy is further enraged when Tracy reports Tyler to the police for having sex with a minor and is obliged to give a formal statement. Tyler seems genuinely remorseful when talking to Amy who, without telling her parents, has a termination, accompanied to the clinic by a sympathetic Bethany. She lies that she had a miscarriage, but Tracy gets the truth out of Bethany. She and Steve think they have failed as parents when Amy admits she was too scared to tell them.
• Steve and Tracy put in an offer for 12 Victoria Street but end up in a gazumping war with Claudia.
• Kevin Webster rejects several offers of money when he can't afford an activity holiday for Jack Webster. Still trying to make amends, Gina plans to throw a party for Sally and the factory staff contribute money which Gina posts through No.13’s letterbox. Kevin mistakes it for holiday money from Sophie Webster and takes Jack away. Unable to explain where the money has gone, Gina is thrown out by Beth. Sophie takes her aunt in, but she is tired of the gossip about her and plans to leave for Newcastle. Kevin sorts out the mix up when he and Jack return, and tells Gina she is welcome to stay for as long as she wants. Sally refuses to apologise to her sister for suspecting her of stealing the money.
• Desperately needing cash, Gary gives a high quote to fix No.8 after the boat fire, but Sarah makes him reduce it. He examines Underworld's roof when Carla also asks him for a quote and tells her Pat Phelan did a bodge job when he rebuilt the roof which requires remedying. She orders him to just patch it up without telling Nick, unwilling to close down the business for a complete refit.
• Kate throws herself into wedding preparations. Rana invites too many guests, and Lolly, an old friend of Kate’s, steps in to put some of the people off from accepting their invitations.
• Daniel is occupied accompanying Sinead to a radiotherapy session and falls behind with an essay for his MA. Brian offers to help but spills coffee over Daniel's laptop. He recovers it, finishes the piece and Daniel sends it off without checking its contents.

March

• Shona has taken Clayton to a derelict house. He begs her for cash and she takes him £2,500 that she overheard Nick and David secreting away in No.8. Not wanting her son to get too much extra time on his sentence, she rings the police saying he wants to give himself up. She is with him when the building is surrounded, and he holds a knife to her throat demanding £10,000 and a car. As the standoff continues, Clayton admits that he was the prison drug runner with his late father bringing the goods in for him. He shows no remorse at his death, sickening Shona. To escape, she stabs her own son. Clayton undergoes surgery and is returned to prison. Shona gives David the money back that she took. He realises he loves Shona and is delighted when she accepts his proposal.
• Steve and Tracy pull out of buying the house. Tracy and Vicky have a catfight in the street over Tracy reporting Tyler to the police. Tired of the conflict, Roberts sacks Tyler but Vicky is grateful when he finds her son another job in Macclesfield.
• Claudia opposes Billy, Summer and Paul about the bail hostel when she discovers it will be in a building opposite the Redbank Apartments where she is planning to buy a flat.
• Steve agrees to Seb valeting cabs at Street Cars, but when he arrives for work he finds that his mother has already been given the job by Tim. Sarah is grateful when Seb helps her trace a missing Max and intercedes with Gary to give him his job back now that work has begun on the Underworld fire damage. She also helps Eileen plan a surprise 18th birthday party for him. Sebastian mistakes her friendliness and tries it on with her. A livid Gary announces what he's done at the party to try and get Faye Windass to break up with him. After making his life at work difficult, Gary sacks Seb after the two trade insults. Jan Lozinski is taken on in his place. Eileen is flattered when the Polish builder chats her up. Liz returns from Spain. She momentarily puts Eileen off Jan by reminding her that he's a builder like Phelan. Eileen nevertheless goes out with him, upsetting Seb to see her with the man who usurped his job.
• Daniel’s essay is criticised, aside from Brian’s conclusion. He is depressed that his academic standard isn't up to that of Brian.
• Rana is put out when Lolly takes over the planning of her wedding but gives in when she manages to book the Chariot Square Hotel for the venue for free. Lolly also takes over the organisation of the hen do, hiring a stripper and topless waiters. Rana has had enough when she sneers at her wedding dress and tells her off for interfering. Lolly is hurt, and the girls embarrassed, when she overhears them disparaging her. Rana apologises and Lolly leans in for a kiss. The girls uninvite her and she slashes Rana’s wedding dress in revenge. Carla and Beth work on repairing it in the factory. Imran tries to get Saira Habeeb to attend the wedding.
• Yasmeen Nazir is unhappy when Geoff Metcalfe turns up with an overnight bag when they are having an evening out. Claudia and Cathy counsel her to be honest with Geoff that she is afraid because she has never been with any other man aside from Sharif. He exaggerates a back injury caused by slipping on the floor at Speed Daal in order that he is pampered by Yasmeen at No.6. She overcomes her fears and tells him she loves him.
• Ali decides to return to medicine and gets his old job at the hospital back.
• Pushed by Joseph, Chesney gets Gemma to agree to move into No.5.
• The barbers, named as Trim Up North, opens. New employee Andrea Abruzzi, offers to get the flyers printed but they quote prices of £1 instead of £10. A customer complains that he has been badly cut whilst being shaved when there is nothing wrong with him. Nick discovers that both actions were initiated by rival Rachel Healy and Andrea and the customer are employees of hers. Audrey forgives her grandsons and she and Maria Connor lend a hand when the first day proves chaotic. David is annoyed when Nick allows Gail to do jobs in the firm. Determined to replace her, he advertises a position and Natalie Watkins applies, determined to blackmail Nick for more money. He puts her off by lying that he’s due to get a windfall soon.
• James returns alone from Paris saying Evelyn disappeared after having an argument with a taxi driver at the station. Tyrone finds out she is in a French jail for refusing to pay her fare. He pays her fine to get her released and gives her a job at the garage where she proves her worth dealing with a customer when he demands a reduced bill.
• Unable to get his boat repaired, Peter plans to buy a new one in Southampton and leave Weatherfield to work on it. Carla is devastated to hear that he is going and tells him that she loves him. Likening his feelings for her to his alcohol addiction, he tells her it would never work and leaves.
• Michelle discovers she is pregnant. After a ball is accidentally kicked at her stomach, she goes to the hospital with Carla and finds that there was no pregnancy in the first place. The environment reminds her of Ruairi McDonald's death, and pushed by Carla to be honest, she tells Robert that she can never go through another pregnancy. The two split up and Michelle and her sons move into the Rovers as Robert takes to drink and walks out of the bistro. He blames Carla for influencing Michelle.

Disaster at Underworld.

• A desperate Gary’s only hope is to get to the factory roof job. Carla delays paying him for the fire damage work. Carla plans to close Underworld and start afresh without Nick and using outsourced labour in Milton Keynes. Beth discovers what Carla’s up to, but she bribes her to keep quiet. Nick becomes suspicious of her activities and threatens Beth with the sack to get the truth. He announces Carla’s plan to the shocked staff who plan direct action in protest. Realising that Beth knew all along, the staff exclude her from their plans and she instead works on fixing Rana’s dress. Carla tells Nick she somehow has to keep production going because of the unsafe roof. Robert overhears them. One morning, someone tampers with the roof. The staff plan a sit-in. On the day of Kate and Rana’s wedding, Beth contacts Rana to say that her dress is ready to collect. The staff occupy the premises, but Sally lets Rana in for her dress. A bickering Sally and Gina go up on the roof to put up banners they have both made. It gives way under Sally, and she falls in when the structure collapses down on the staff inside. The emergency services are called while the staff try to escape. All emerge unscathed except for Sally who is taken out by the paramedics. Rana is pinned under the debris and manages to call Kate at the wedding hotel who rushes back to the street. The rescue teams are held back by another fall and there is little they can do for a badly-injured Rana. Kate is allowed to be with her as she dies.
• Carla is distraught at her death. Peter returns to help her, and she sobs that she was warned about the faulty roof and did nothing. Sally recovers with a broken collarbone and two broken ribs. Roy tells Carla she can stay with him for as long she needs. Imran erupts in anger at Saira for disowning his sister and for wanting an Islamic funeral. Peter offers Gary £10,000 from the sale of the Southampton boat to lie to the police and put all the blame on Phelan. Wayne Hayes returns to the area as the health and safety inspector in charge of the investigation. Gary accepts Peter’s bribe and lies. Imran pressures Wayne for a result. Saira reluctantly allows Kate to attend the funeral. Both Kate and Imran find it an almost impossible ordeal. Kate organises a memorial and tells Lolly to stay away when she asks to attend. Imran is convinced Carla is to blame. He trashes his flat and collapses in grief, comforted by Toyah.
• Wayne finds out Roy’s ring was made in Egypt in the 1950s and wonders if it made its way back to the country as a result of the Suez crisis.
• Gary is on a financial precipice as he waits for Peter’s money. He gets a job in Prestwich with Jan but hides from everyone the fact that he owes loan shark Rick Neelan £20,000 with interest. He steals Gary's tools to force the issue. Peter can only raise £9,000 so Rick tells Gary that from now on he’s working for him in lieu of payment.
• Robert returns, having disappeared from the area during the time of the roof collapse. He is involved in a young offenders scheme organised by Billy and takes on Chloe, a young ex-con, at the bistro. Threatening legal action, he refuses to let Michelle back into work at the restaurant. He evades a call from someone ringing him.
• Sinead and Bertie come home. Daniel organises a party where Beth is put out by an expensive baby monitor that Claudia gives as a present. Beth is caught on the monitor making bitchy remarks about Claudia. The lady herself is put out that Ken doesn't defend her enough, saying they are just good friends. As a result of their argument, they agree that they are officially a couple.
• Gina alerts Sally when she sees how unwell a hardworking Tim looks. He is diagnosed with suffering a mild heart attack and is told to change his lifestyle.

April

• Mentally struggling, Carla tells the police that Gary was only hired to fix the fire damage. Imran doesn't want her at Rana’s memorial. Peter complains that Wayne is hounding Carla. At the memorial, Robert tells the attendees what he overheard, and that Carla knew the roof was unsafe. Imran and Kate report her to the police. They arrest her but under questioning she keeps Gary’s name out of it. Roy is furious that she has lied to him and orders her to move out. Peter takes her in at No.1, with only him, Ken and Johnny showing her any compassion. Ken suggests she expresses remorse in some form such as helping her workforce. Despite their reluctance, the staff go along with her plan to do packing and distribution of their one remaining order at Jamila House. Kate restages the memorial. Peter returns to Street Cars. Carla's mental state deteriorates, not helped when Peter tries to affect a reunion with the Connors by taking her to the cemetery on Aidan Connor’s birthday where Kate again rejects her presence. She starts to receive texts supposedly from Rana, but in reality from a vengeful Alya Nazir. Kate prevents her sending anymore but the damage is done as Carla is in an advanced state of paranoia. Peter gets her to the medical centre for treatment, but she escapes through the back window and goes missing. The police search for her and even the Connors grow concerned when they hear the many desperate messages that she has left on Rana's phone. Following a social media appeal created by Simon, Peter follows up a tip and visits a squat on the Brightwell Estate where she has supposedly been seen but the police raid it before he can find out anything. On a return visit with Johnny, a squatter denies seeing Carla, but he is hiding her presence within the house at her request. Feeling the strain, Peter falls off the waggon and Claudia pays for him to be sent to a rehabilitation clinic.
• Struggling with his grief, Imran talks to Nick who tells him how he coped after the death of Brian Tilsley. Wayne momentarily leaves his finalised report lying around and thinks Imran has sneaked a look at it. When the report is stolen from Wayne's car, he reports Imran to the police, but he has an impeccable alibi. Imran tricks Wayne into revealing that the factory roof was sabotaged, proving his theory that it was all an insurance scam. As the police have asked him if he and Nick ever discussed factory business, Imran begins to suspect that the co-owner was involved in the matter. Nick can’t get the insurance to pay out before the police investigation is completed. Toyah finds the stolen report under Nick’s mattress. He denies putting it there and reports its finding to the police, asserting that someone is trying to frame him.
• Grateful to Gina, Sally makes it up with her before she moves to Newcastle. Sally takes charge of Tim's diet, making the unhappy man give up fatty foods and take up power walking. He, Dev Alahan and Steve enter into a £100 bet to see who can lower their heart age the most in a month. Determined to win, Dev takes up meditation, but Tim and Steve get Evelyn to complain to him about his service in the corner shop which makes his blood pressure sky high. As Sally enforces Tim's exercise regime, he secretes chocolates in the house.
• Paul looks for work but the only position he can get is paperboy at The Kabin. Billy takes on a similar role to support him. The two date and soon afterwards win a Mr & Mrs quiz at the Rovers.
• Chesney is annoyed by Gemma’s slovenly habits and irresponsible attitude to life. She tries to make amends by re-organising the cupboards at No.5. Brian is banned from taking part in radio quizzes after arguing with the DJs. Gemma helps him by ringing in herself as “Jemima” while Brian feeds her the answers, winning them £1,000. Mary finds out, and as she was their opponent in the quiz, she makes Brian donates his share to charity. Gemma and Chesney argue when she buys a new sound system, rather than replacing the washing machine she has broken. Rita makes her see that Chesney has to be responsible for Joseph’s sake. Gemma gets upset when Chesney makes formal legal arrangements for Fiz Stape and Tyrone to be Joseph's guardian if something should happen to him, rather than her. The two plan a holiday. Gemma refuses to go to Portugal to stay with Linda Hancock and instead the two find themselves in a dirty beat-up caravan in the country owned by one of Paul's mates. It rains incessantly at the campsite and Chesney and Gemma argue constantly, boring Joseph. She retreats to the local pub and when she returns falls down drunk in the wrong caravan, waking up to find herself being towed away by an elderly couple who she reports to the police for kidnap. Chesney tells her that he and his son are near the end of their tether with her behaviour. While they ponder if they have a future together, Gemma finds out she is pregnant. Thinking Chesney doesn't want them to be together, Gemma moves back into Rita's flat, keeping the news about the pregnancy from the father. Joseph is upset at her departure.
• Roy departs for Portsmouth to visit the Royal Marine Museum, hoping that the latest clue will lead him to “RP”.

Gary finds himself being ensnared more and more into Rick's world.

• Sarah is livid to discover that Gary accepted Peter’s bribe. He works on some roof maintenance at No.3 rather than answering Rick’s calls. He is unnerved to see Rick in No.8 with Harry Platt in his arms, posing to Sarah as an old friend who is there to offer Gary work. The job turns out to be to persuade vulnerable pensioners to take out loans. Gary is appalled when Alex Warner takes out a loan with Rick which he uses to buy Cathy a bracelet. Gary breaks down crying at the pressure he is under. Rick puts him onto debt collection duties alongside his harsh thuggish enforcer Sharon Geary. Sarah wonders what he is up to when she sees him dressed in a suit accompanying Sharon. He enables Vicky Jefferies to get away when ordered to repossess personal possessions from her. As a punishment, Rick beats Gary up badly but it enables him to retrieve Alex’s passport and post office card which Rick had taken as collateral. Rick takes the remainder of Gary's office equipment and van and swears revenge when Brian and Cathy come to pay off Alex's debt and he finds out that his hold over the boy has gone. Gary comes clean to Sarah that he has lost the business and she throws him out for putting her and Harry at risk from a man like Rick. He moves in with Izzy. Eileen also evicts him from the yard, livid at what he’s done to Jason Grimshaw’s investment.
• Sean has an allergy to the shaving products at Trim Up North. Sinead presents an impressed Nick and David with her homemade beard oil, and they hire her to produce it as their permanent supplier. David gives Natalie a job on a trial basis. Leanne is puzzled as she was previously told she was Nick's solicitor, but they come up with a cover story which satisfies her. Nick and David make a plan to give Natalie all the difficult jobs to try and force her to leave but David ends up impressed with her commitment to learning the ropes. The police search through the Underworld books and Nick fears that they will trace the stolen money, so he invents a story that it was put there in a bid to hide it from his ex-wife.
• Yasmeen finds out that Geoff has been sabotaging Brian’s vegetable gardening efforts and makes him confess to his victim.
• Sinead has her final radiotherapy treatment. She and Daniel plan a naming ceremony for Bertie rather than a christening. Beth warns her that her family will not like the idea, so she relents and organises a joint ceremony which in turn annoys Daniel. Beth and Ken argue over the matter. In revenge, Beth reports Claudia for not picking up Eccles’s dog poo and the incident causes a row at the christening which Tracy tries and fails to provoke into a full-blown food fight. Kirk sings some awful self-compositions at the christening which he thinks have gone down well and decides to try for a career as a professional singer. Beth tries to protect him from humiliation by becoming his manager.
• Abi struggles to find work due to her lack of qualifications. Brian refuses to teach her until Faye pleads on her behalf and Brian sets to to he task with gusto.
• Eileen takes Jan in as a lodger at No.11. Seb starts up his own repair business and while doing a job at Rachel Healy's salon he meets and takes a fancy to Romanian stylist Alina Pop. He takes her to a St George’s Day party at the Rovers and then out for a meal, but she appears scared when she sees Jan and Eileen at a nearby table. She is sympathetic when she finds out about his HIV condition. Both Mary and Moira Pollock make an unsuccessful play for Jan. He tells Moira that he’s interested in another woman and Tracy thinks that must mean Mary.

May

• Nick is arrested by the police over the stolen report but subsequently released. Imran is livid and punches him in the face. Leanne insists that he and Toyah leave her flat immediately. They move into Kate's flat. Sarah becomes concerned that her brothers are up to something when she thinks they are being secretive. The police insist on going through Nick’s personal financial records, but he refuses unless they have a warrant. Imran and Toyah stage an argument in front of Leanne and then claim they have broken up in order that Toyah can move back in with her sister and keep a close eye on Nick. He however doesn’t trust Toyah. Leanne finds out from Sarah about the money that went through Underworld’s books and she and Toyah wonder if Nick obtained it from Rick Neelan as Elsa denies supplying it. The three women search Rick’s office, knocking Sharon out when she surprises them. She remembers Sarah’s name being called out as they flee with the records, including Gary’s passport. Leanne realises her sister is working against Nick but she herself grows tired of Nick not being upfront about the money.
• Mary and Tracy overhear Jan on the phone to a woman called Rachel. Mary finds herself in competition with Moira for his affections. Freda Burgess returns to the street, selling No.3 on Norris’s instructions. Not believing Freda’s story that Norris is in a silent retreat, Tracy winds up Mary to the point where she accuses Freda of murder. Norris arrives, breaking the bombshell that he and Freda are engaged, and he wants a divorce. Mary refuses until she discovers that Norris withheld a stash of letters written to her by Brendan Finch, in which he proposed marriage. She subsequently finds out the magazine editor has since died. She blames Norris for losing her chance of happiness. Freda finishes with her fiancé for his deceitful actions.
• Sally rows with Tim when she finds out he’s eating chocolate biscuits, but he later admits that he agrees with her idea of a healthy diet with occasional treats. Tim wins his bet against Steve and Dev as to who has the fittest heart rate.
• Pushed by Brian to write a short story, Abby plagiarises the Zombezi TV show. Brian tells her to come up with her own material. She struggles with her maths homework.
• Gemma decides to go and live back with her mother, but Rita tells Chesney that he's going to be a father. He asks Gemma to return, but she thinks it's only because she's pregnant and tells him he can play a part in the baby’s upbringing, but they can only ever be friends.
• Geoff tries to cancel Yasmeen’s book club meeting to get more time alone with her. Sally offends Yasmeen when she infers that Speed Daal’s curries are unhealthy and tells Geoff to invite the couple to dinner at No.6 to prove them wrong. Geoff asks his son to claim that he is ill so he can get Yasmeen to himself, but then discovers that Alya will be there as well. He is hurt when Yasmeen makes constructive criticisms of his cooking and tells her off for always criticising Sally. With Emma as his assistant, he wins first prize at a talent night at the Rovers, making Yasmeen feeling guilty for having a prior appointment and being unable to help him at the event.

Kirk embarks on a singing career.

• Although Kirk doesn't win the talent night, an agent. Jasmine Ridgeway, signs him up for a six-week run at Pontins. He's dejected when he finds out it's as a comedy act but is persuaded to go when Abi points out that he'll be putting smiles on people’s faces.
• Asha Alahan falls for Corey Brent, a boy at Weatherfield High, and begins to neglect her studies. She realises that Corey is more interested in Amy. Dev confiscates her phone, not knowing she has a spare.
• Ryan is depressed that his work as a DJ seems to have passed him by. Bethany encourages him by getting Alya to ask him to DJ at Speed Daal’s new student night. Geoff is hurt that he wasn't asked. Ryan is caught in the middle when both Bethany and Alya are attracted to him. Bethany overcomes her fears of intimacy and sleeps with him, after he has agreed to a date with Alya. Confused by what his brother is doing, Ali mistakenly informs Bethany that Ryan is seeing Alya. When the matter is sorted, Alya keeps Ryan on as DJ and informs Bethany that his feelings for her are genuine.
• Michelle also searches for Carla and is grateful for Robert’s support. Behind her back, his movements are furtive, and going to meet someone at the Riverlands Hotel he sees a dishevelled Carla there, but she escapes when he tries to bring her back to Victoria Street. Roy returns from Portsmouth and joins in the search. Seeing he is back, a paranoid Carla turns up at his flat, and feels betrayed by him when he calls an ambulance. At the hospital, she asks for Peter because she now only trusts him. Ken refuses to interrupt his son’s rehabilitation, but Roy defies him and summons Peter who is angry at his father’s interference. Carla is released on medication, but Ken refuses to have her at No.1 as he thinks she will adversely affect Peter. Roy takes them both in at his flat. Carla can't stand Roy's presence due to his perceived betrayal, so Ken lets him stay in at No.1. Roy falls out with Wayne when he makes it clear he will not help him investigate Carla. After secretly flushing away her medication, Carla suffers a severe psychotic episode in which she has visions of Aidan, Hayley and Rana. Peter has to talk her down off the fire escape at the Redbank apartments.
• Sophie is pleased to see Paula Martin back when she represents Nick. They go pony-trekking in Spain. Their holiday inspires Sally to take up horse riding with Jenny and Yasmeen and together with Sinead they form a syndicate and buy Heracles, thinking he’s a thoroughbred, but he turns out to be an old nag that Tim renames Tiny.
• Seb is puzzled when Alina makes no contact with him and traces her to another of Rachel's salons. She is circumspect about where she is living, telling him that Rachel is her landlord as well as her employer and she doesn't want to upset her. After spending the night with her, Seb turns up at her workplace to make sure she is okay. The concerned girl asks him to leave before Rachel returns.
• Steve and Tim worry as Street Cars loses customers and staff to rival cab firm GoLucky. The two men argue about sacking Abi to cut costs. Tracy wants to move out of the flat and sell it, even though it will make Liz homeless. She refuses to let Steve use their house deposit to have an app designed for the firm, insisting that he does illegal street pickups for the extra cash. He does so but one of his fares is Dave, a criminal who robs a petrol station and threatens Steve if he ever breathes a word about it to the police. When the law catches up with Steve, he claims he was too shocked to make a report. He begins to carry a baseball bat round with him for protection but uses it to chase three lads, including County footballer James Bailey, when they claim they have no cash to pay their fare. Steve helps James when he is knocked over while running away from him and they both decided to keep quiet about the incident for the sake of their relative careers. However, Brian has witnessed the incident and the police tell Steve they are recommending that his licence is rescinded. Liz, Eileen and Tracy tell the lads they are taking over the running of the business with Liz and Tracy as drivers. Tracy threatens the app designer to lower his quote.
• Natalie becomes a liability when she becomes bored with her duties and instead gets drunk in the Rovers. David starts to train her to cut hair. She arouses Shona's suspicions. Natalie tries it on with David and is annoyed when he rejects her. She also overhears Nick and David discussing how to keep her sweet. She winds them up by going out with Andrew, a policeman customer. Afraid of what she will say, Nick orders his brother to intervene and he follows them to the bistro where Shona overhears her saying that David is stalking her. She punches Natalie to the ground and is threatened with arrest.
• Adam returns from his travels, beginning work again at the solicitors.
• Roy is evasive about the success of his researches in Portsmouth.
• Audrey takes her entire family on a promised luxury camping holiday. Natalie follows them to warn Nick and David that the police have taken advantage of their absence to search the barber’s shop. Gail realises from the tattoo on the base of her neck that she is the same woman on the CCTV footage seen withdrawing the cash from Audrey’s account. She reports her to the police and Natalie does a runner. Shona is convinced that Natalie and David are having an affair and breaks off their engagement. To try and keep her happy, David confesses everything to Audrey about the loss of her £80,000. Gail begs her devastated mother to show mercy, but she reports them to the police. Nick tells Leanne that David was the brains behind everything and tries to persuade his brother to take the rap as he has no connection to the roof collapse.
• Gary is surprised when his passport is anonymously returned to him. To revenge himself, Rick kidnaps Gary to beat him to death. Momentarily left in Rick's office, Gary in a weakened state rings Sarah and leaves a message on her answerphone. Rick continues the assault but the police interrupt by knocking on the door and Gary manages to crawl outside, ending up in hospital. Discharged, he manages to get hold of Sarah’s phone and deletes the message he left for her in which he confesses to being the roof saboteur.

June

• Carla gets a place at a residential treatment centre in Carlisle. Peter and Simon accompany her there.
• Rick is arrested. Sarah tells Gary she's glad she was wrong in her suspicions about him and the roof. She hands over the items she stole from the loan shark's office to Gary. He sells the passports back to their owners and gives the cash he receives for them to Sarah for the Underworld staff’s wages. Sarah tells Nick to keep away from the factory and she will run it. He vows to wrest back control and seeks legal advice from Adam. Although he refuses to represent him, he manages to persuade Nick to concentrate on his other problems and leave the factory under Sarah’s control.
• After a short spell working at Underworld, Gary decides to return to the building trade. He gets jealous when Adam starts to become friendly with Sarah. In the meantime, Sarah is grateful to Adam for getting Nick off her case and the two begin to see each other behind Gary's back. She wavers when she thinks that they are being unfair to Gary, but nevertheless agrees to stay overnight at a hotel with Adam. Released by the police, Rick turns up on the street looking for Sarah. Gary desperately tries to find and warn her that she’s in danger but failing that rings Rick who demands he meets him in Beacon Woods. There an open grave has been prepared. Gary fights for his life and kills Rick. He buries his body in the woods but has to return when he realises that he has lost his St Christopher's necklace. His search is interrupted by dog walkers, and he is relieved when he later finds Harry playing with it. Sarah admits she has been seeing Adam and she throws him out when he gets rough with her over her perceived betrayal. Gary and Adam almost come to blows when Adam sees the bruise on Sarah’s arm that Gary gave her. Sarah warns Adam off from fighting her battles but also tells Gary to stay away from her and her family from now onwards.
• Gail asks David to move out of No.8 and he beds down in the barbers’ shop. Nick offers David a deed of transfer to take the rap on his behalf. The two brothers are arrested and questioned by the police who believe David’s side of the story. He is charged with money laundering, while Nick is charged with both that and also theft. To show his remorse, David hands over the barbers’ shop to Audrey. She allows him to work there but only under Maria’s supervision. Gaail allows him to move back home. Both brothers are released on bail pending their trial. To get back at Nick, Imran offers to represent David at no charge. Leanne threatens to leave Nick unless he is truthful with her. He admits to everything, saying he did it for her and Oliver. She decides to remain with him and help fight his case. David suggests to Shona they set a wedding date in August, but Gail puts a damper on the plan by saying he could well be behind bars by then.
• Nick tries locking David in the barbers to make him late for a police check and thus break his bail, but Maria frees him. Leanne uses David’s phone to make contact with Natalie and persuades her to leave the country, thus depriving David of his key witness. He and Shona realise the part that Leanne played in spiriting her away.
• Asha is refused permission to go to a party but goes anyway. Dev drags her home. To bond with his children, he takes them on a trip to India with him when he hears that his father is dying. With great trepidation, he takes Evelyn on at the corner shop to cover for his absence.
• Gemma suffers acute morning sickness. Chesney faints when a scan reveals she is expecting quads. They are advised to have a selective termination of some of the foetuses to enable the others to survive but decide to take the risk. An unhappy Rita makes Gemma see that she couldn't cope with her and four babies in her flat. Gemma is nervous about what sort of mother she will make. Jenny starts fundraising for the couple to help out with their upcoming costs. The twelve-week scan shows all four babies are doing fine. Gemma is given the idea of selling her story to the press and gets journalist Suki Waters interested but Chesney objects to being portrayed as a freak show.
• Norris makes Mary see that he was only trying to protect her from Brendan. Freda sees them holding hands. Having to decide between the two women, he chooses Freda. Mary agrees to give him a divorce. He accepts an offer on No.3 and moves to Edinburgh after a farewell party.

Claudia and Amy retaliate with the "Strangled Cat Concerto" in Z#.

• The Bailey family buys No.3. Ed Bailey, a builder, starts converting the house. Not realising he is going to be his new neighbour, Ken complains about the noise. Ed also buys the builder's yard from Eileen. Steve is deputised to complain about the noise and discovers that Ed and Aggie Bailey’s son is James. His parents remonstrate with him for his behaviour in the taxi and for putting his career with County at risk. The elder wheeler-dealer son, Michael Bailey, takes a fancy to Michelle, and she agrees to go out with him when Robert puts on a show of indifference. Michael tries to impress her by showing her his supposed bachelor pad which in reality is his parents’ old expansive house in Alderley Edge which they are having to downsize from due to financial problems. He also poses as James's agent and organises a tour of the County ground for a fee. Aggie demands the alterations to No.3 are sped up and, in the process, Michael accidentally batters a hole in the wall through to No.1. Claudia thinks Ken is not being firm enough with his new neighbours’ chaos and begins a noise war with them involving violins, a piano, and drills. Ken and Ed retreat to the Rovers where they negotiate a peace.
• Tim admits that he enjoys looking after Tiny. Yasmeen, Jenny and Sinead want out of the syndicate. Sally is handed a huge vet's bill for the horse and sells it, devastating Tim who is reminded of the trauma of losing his childhood dog after his father sold it. He is delighted when Sally buys it back, though he sulks for a while that his wife sold the creature from under him and only forgives her when she dresses up as a jockey to entice him into bed. Steve is hurt when Tracy forgets his birthday. Prompted by Michael, he has the idea of dressing tiny as a Unicorn and hiring him out to children's parties, but a protective Tim objects.
• Sinead considers concentrating on her cosmetic oil business. She has an MRI scan and gets upset at the thought of dying and leaving Bertie without a mother. Beth joins in photography lessons that Ken attends and is insulted by his patronising comments. She gets one up on him when her photograph of Bertie makes it to the finals of a Gazette competition whereas his doesn't make it through. Sinead is upset though of its accompanying caption of “Where’s mummy?”
• Brian continues to tutor Abi.
• Michelle overhears Robert telling Daniel that he regrets finishing with her. She engineers a reconciliation. She and Ryan move back into Robert’s flat. Robert visits Vicky Jefferies in Macclesfield, who he has secretly been seeing for several months, to tell her it is over between. Throwing him out, she withholds the news from him that she is pregnant. Her temper boils over with Tyler and she admits to him about her condition. Roberts organises a party at the bistro where he intends to propose to Michelle, but Tyler waylays him outside where he punches him in the face and reveals that he's going to be a father. A subdued Robert goes ahead with the proposal. He begs Vicky to keep the baby when she considers an abortion. Vicky thinks she's miscarried and Robert accompanies her to a scan where they are told that the baby is fine. He promises Vicky he will be there for her, but not as a family unit. He gets Michelle to agree that they have a secret wedding with no fuss while leading an elaborate double life between the two women.
• Roy’s friends are worried about his distracted state. He reveals that his investigations turned up that his mother had an affair with a soldier named Raymond Parrott over some six years. He's bitter that she never showed him any love when it was obvious that she was more than capable of it.
• Gary arranges Rick's office to try and make it look to the police as though he has skipped abroad, but in the process finds himself dealing with Rick's customers who are desperate for loans. Initially, he gives money away for free, but Izzy gives him a stern warning that he needs a regular income to support Jake Windass and against his better judgement he begins to operate Rick's business for his own benefit. He is taken aback when Rick's teenage daughter coma Kelly Neelan, turns up at her father's office looking for him. Gary poses as one of his customers to forestall the girl’s questions.
• Geoff invites Tim and Sally for dinner and it's annoyed with Yasmeen for being late and drunk after a wine tasting at the bistro. He punishes her by pretending that he has cooked one of her favourite chickens, Charlotte Brontë, and making out that a spilled drink over Ryan’s mixing desk at the restaurant was her doing when she is hungover. When she is mugged of Speed Daal’s takings, he tries to persuade her it is better to stay indoors under his protection but she resumes her old life when the mugger is caught, much to his frustration. He is humiliated when Craig easily overpowers him at a self-defence class. A gloved intruder steals a box of precious jeweller from No.6.

July

• Geoff himself is the robber, trying to create a rift between Yasmeen and Alya who had brought friends back to the house. Alya and Ryan suspect him when they spot a necklace in his pocket, but it proves to be one he bought for Yasmeen as a gift to try and cheer her up. Their mistake creates a further breach between grandmother and granddaughter, and Alya moves into the builder’s yard flat.
• Michelle matchmakes between Ryan and Alya. Initially amused, the two are eventually drawn to each other.
• Ray Crosby, a local hotelier, offers Speed Daal a catering job at a charity event he is organising. Alya gets Michelle involved to help with the workload. Robert also has to step in and help when the number of attendees is doubled that expected even though he annoys Vicky by breaking an appointment to see her. Tim and Steve see Robert and Vicky together. Robert tells them it is because he is helping Tyler again. Steve lets slip to Tracy about what he saw. Ray hires the caterers again as his hotel is hosting the Youth Foundation Awards to which Tyler has been invited. He and Vicky attend where Robert desperately attempts to keep them apart from Michelle. Ray offers Michelle a permanent job as his events manager. She accepts, ignoring the signs that he fancies her. Alya is livid that she wasn’t asked and quits working with Michelle.
• Leanne invites Gail and Audrey over to celebrate her birthday and build bridges with them. Nick is angry when they don't show, until he is told his gran suffered an angina attack on the way. At Leanne’s suggestion, Nick and Paula, acting as his solicitor, play up his brain injury as a defence. David retaliates by lying that Nick knew all about the roof. Gail tries to bring the family together to sort out their differences, but a huge row ensues which ends up with Audrey being hit over the head with an ornament. Both brothers are arrested for breaching their bail conditions and held in Highfield Prison until their trial. There, Nick falls foul of Ash, a drug dealer and reconciles with his brother when David steps in to defend him. In court, both brothers retract their testimony against the other and are both are found guilty. Nick is given a suspended sentence and walks free, whilst David's suspended sentence is activated, and he goes to jail for four months. Gail has had enough of her family and jets off to Bangkok, determined to enjoy her own life.
• Sarah tells Nick she’s using the psychiatric report done on him to have him be declared unfit to act as company director. A member of Beth's photographic club proves to have a picture of Nick jogging ten miles away from the factory at the same time that Beth heard noises on the factory roof above her, exonerating him.
• Wanting a man in her life, Maria has disastrous dates with an adulterer, a dog fetishist, and a mummy’s boy, complete with mummy in tow. Ali fancies her, and she is attracted to him, but remembering how Michelle reacted when he slept with Carla, she is afraid of the consequences. Ryan and Alya try to bring them together, and Michelle indeed objects. After she is convinced not to interfere, Maria and Ali become an item.
• Carla, Peter and Simon return from Carlisle. Roy puts them up in his flat. She hands over her share of the business in equal shares to the factory staff. Peter objects but Carla makes him see that she needs to be rid of Underworld to move on. She and Kate make up. Carla works at the bistro while Michelle is helping Alya with Ray’s charity do. Peter returns to Street Cars.
• Sean has a new man in his life and Paul sends him a text to try and spice things up between them, but it ends up scaring the man off. Sean blames Paul. The medical centre’s collection box is stolen and Sean suspects Paul when he gives Billy the gift of a pair of expensive headphones. The police are informed but Paul is cleared. Sean is punched in the face by Marley Phelps, the friend who sold the earphones to Paul and who was almost caught with stolen goods in his flat by the investigating police. Tim overhears the man boasting about the assault and the police are told. Paul finishes with Billy for shopping his mate and goes out with another man to spite him.
• Michael assists Steve with Tiny. Steve gets the cab licence back in his name but keeps it secret from Tracy in order that she mans the office while he works with Tiny. Tim drops his opposition when Steve makes £300 from one party alone. Adam let slip to Liz and Tracy that Steve has got his licence back. They investigate how he and Tim have been filling their hours and find out about Tiny. Tracy confiscates their money and hands half over to Sally who buys a hot tub with it. Liz and Tracy quit the cab firm.
• Kirk visits Beth on a break from his tour. She hides her upset when he tells her that he's been booked for more gigs, and he thinks she isn't missing him. Daniel and Sinead bring the two of them together. Beth is jealous when Kirk asks Aggie for advice with a rash on his bottom which they find is being caused by an irritating clothes label.
• An MRI scan shows that Sinead's tumour has shrunk. She and Daniel cancel a holiday so that she can concentrate on her business. He suggests that they should have a legally binding marriage.
• A frightened Alina asks Seb to keep away from her and Rachel tells him that she has quit her job. Jan advises him to move on, but the builder also visits the salon himself, warning the girl off Seb. Eileen and Jan grow close. Eileen realises that Paula knows him. Liz checks his background on the internet and discovers he was once convicted for drug-dealing. Jan explains to Eileen that he had to do it to support his mother but behind Eileen’s back rings someone to say everything has been sorted. Sally and Abi spot Alina at the nail salon and tell Seb, who is hurt that she lied to him. Jan tries to scotch Eileen’s suggestion that Seb visits her. Seb discovers that Alina is the victim of a modern slavery people-trafficking ring, run by Rachel and her husband Nikolai Frankowicz. He also suspects Jan is involved. Jan tells Seb to keep away from the nail salon as Rachel is bad news.
• Roy hires a cowboy electrician Larry to have the cafe rewired. When it goes wrong, Ed needs two weeks to redo the job and Tyrone puts Roy up in No.9 in the interim. Evelyn puts up posters round the area telling people that Larry is a cowboy and goes on radio to tell people not to trust him. A furious Larry tries to attack Roy but is seen off by Mary with a mop.
• Kelly pushes Gary for more answers as to her father's whereabouts and learns for the first time what his true profession was. Sarah grows suspicious of Gary when he is evasive about the message that he left on her phone that she failed to listen to before it went missing. Sarah reports him to the police as a possible saboteur, but they let him go after questioning him. Sharon Geary is incredulous that Rick has supposedly handed over his business matters to Gary. Kelly reports her missing father to the police. Gary tells them Rick himself was the saboteur, trying to ruin his building business and plants evidence in his house to prove his assertion. He also bribes Sharon to back him up with £15,000 cash taken from Rick's office and a promise to look after Kelly's fees at Oakhill School after admitting to her that he killed Rick in self-defence. She refuses to join his so-called ethical loan company, saying she hated her old life and warns him that he will end up just like Rick. As a cover for his loan shark activities, he begins a furniture business in the old garage bodyshop with his first items for sale being given by a customer in lieu of payment. Imran reluctantly accepts Gary's innocence.
• The factory shareholders vote to forgo their bonuses to enable the factory to be rebuilt. Beth objects, wanting holiday money, and sells her shares equally to the others.

Force of nature Bernie Winter makes her presence known.

• Evelyn gives a cash-strapped Gemma extra hours at the corner shop. Chesney changes his mind about selling his story and they appear on Radio Weatherfield where the host starts a social media campaign to get the two of them to marry. Gemma's ne’er-do-well mother, Bernie winters, turns up, needing money for her overdue rent. Chesney is disgusted when Gemma wants to hand over some of the collection money to her. Bernie takes a dislike to Chesney and tries to drive a wedge between him and her daughter by coming on to him. Paul, who bears no love for his mother, makes a reluctant Gemma see what's going on. She moves back into No.5, though not reunited with Chesney, and he also has to put Bernie up there to stop her being homeless. Bernie gives Chesney a wishing tree as a peace offering, but he later finds it has been stolen from Victoria Gardens and orders her to put it back.
• Paula moves in to No.13 to be with Sophie. Mark Thackeray steals Kevin’s house keys and breaks in to go through the solicitor’s papers. A frightened Jack texts his father and he and Abi overcome the intruder, who is arrested. Paula admits he is linked with a property developer she is opposing in court. Kevin asks her to move out but when Sophie makes up with her, Kevin follows Tim's advice and allows Paula to stay so as not to lose his daughter.
• Kate agrees with a conniving Jenny when she says she lacks direction in her life. She decides to go exploring Asia with Imogen Pascoe but overhears Jenny saying how pleased she is to be rid of her stepdaughter at last. Jenny plans to restart the bed and breakfast when the Rovers’ takings are down.
• Abi is sacked from working for one of Kevin’s rivals. Kevin re-employs her.
• Claudia stays at No.1 whilst her flat is prepared and nags Ken into decluttering the house, much to Tracy’s annoyance.

August

• Johnny warns Jenny not to make him choose between her and his daughter. Ed starts the B&B conversion.
• Robert lies to everyone that he is working part time as a chef at a young offenders’ institute in order to spend more time with Vicky. Kate is given the job of manager at the bistro to raise the funds for her travelling. Jed Moss, Tyler’s father, visits him from Ireland. Robert is alarmed when Vicky considers an offer to move back there with Jed. He angers her when he stalls on giving her a commitment and has to prevent her from going to tell Michelle what is going on. Michelle gives Robert her engagement ring to be resized, but in an argument with Vicky it drops on the floor, and she thinks he was preparing to propose to her. He has no choice but to go down on one knee. He manages to get the ring back off her by lying that it’s a placeholder and he’s going to get her a proper one. Having been stood up by Vicky and Tyler at the ferry port, Jed returns and breaks into Robert’s van, finding the rings he’s got for both Michelle and Vicky. He follows Robert back to the street and sees him kissing Michelle, then blackmails him to stop him revealing he’s got two women on the go. Robert initially complies but then counters Jed by producing bistro CCTV footage of him blackmailing him. Jed returns to Ireland.
• Carla takes offence when she finds out Peter and her concerned family are tracking her movements. She quits her bistro job and tells Peter to move out of the flat. He goes back to No.1. Bored, she runs the cafe for Roy when he falls and hurts his back. Jo Lafoe offers her a job running her internet business which she turns down, realising she wants to be with Peter after all.
• Tyrone and Abi are amused at Kevin's constant grumbles about modern life and Abi creates an internet page called Kev the Crank detailing his endless complaints.
• Rachel tells Jan that a new group of Albanian illegal immigrants are being brought in and to deal with Seb before he finds out too much. Abi has seen Rachel and Jan together and mentions it to Seb who informs Eileen about the trafficking ring. Jan claims he is too scared of the organisers’ threats to do anything and tries to get Eileen and Seb to let the matter rest. Seb tries to get a note to Alina, but it is intercepted by Nikolai and Rachel who lure him to the salon, attacking him with the intention of killing him. Jan smuggles him out and leaves him outside the hospital. Seb tells Eileen about the traffickers. Jan denies any involvement, but Eileen follows him to the salon. Nikolai prepares to deal with her, but Jan squares up to him as the police raid the premises following a tip-off from Seb. The ring is smashed, and Eileen laments being involved with another criminal, not realising that Jan has been working with Paula as an informant to bring the traffickers to justice. Alina and the other girls are given refuge in a Salvation Army house pending the trial. Eileen declares she is off men for ever and turns down a handsome customer when he comes into the cab office. Jan sneaks back to the street, telling Eileen he was an informant and asking her to come with him when he goes into hiding under witness protection. Seb sees that Rachel is watching their movements and warns Eileen, but she pays no heed and meets Jan as agreed at a truck stop to say she’s remaining in the street. Rachel shoots Jan. As he recovers in hospital, Eileen tells him she’s changed her mind and is going with him. Alina returns to Romania.
• Gary rents an expensive flat in Crimea Street. Looking after the furniture shop as a favour, Ryan sells a desk to Mary which contains £650 pounds of Rick’s cash. When Mary tells Gary that the drawers were empty, he realises Ryan stole the cash and starts to pressure him to return it. Finding a key to the storage unit lock up, Gary investigates and finds bundles of £50 notes within it. The insurance company refuses to pay out the full claim for the factory and it faces closure. Gary makes an arrangement with one of Rick's indebted customers, Derek Milligan, to pose as an investor who wants to buy the factory, provided that Gary be given the contract to rebuild it. In reality, Gary is planning for Derek to hand over the business to him once the deal has gone through. Nick sells the site for £10,000 and Ed is given the rebuilding job. He takes Seb on, with no objections from Gary. Adam grows suspicious of Gary’s links to Derek and hires private detective Lenny Isaacs to investigate. Gary keeps the pressure on Ryan to repay him and grows suspicious about whether Derek is going to keep to his side of the bargain.
• Claudia wants to sell her Redbank apartment flat to avoid being near the bail hostel. Imran offers £10,000 under the asking price after finding out the hostel is not going ahead. A guilty Toyah comes clean to Claudia who cancels the deal and moves out of No.1. Imran feels let down by Toyah and wonders if they are compatible. Ken confesses to Rita that he's going to miss Claudia and she tries to get the two of them to talk about moving in together.
• Mary suspects that Evelyn is dropping prices on the corner shop’s quality items that she wants to buy herself but is unable to find proof. Evelyn uses insider information from James about the County players’ fitness to make winning bets against Steve and Tim about the team’s results.
• Emma is heartbroken when her father, John Brooker, is diagnosed with terminal stomach cancer. As he dies, he hints that she’s not his natural daughter. Emma tries to contact her mother in Australia to find out the truth. Audrey sees her photo on Emma’s phone and realises that her mum is Fiona Middleton. She informs Liz, wondering if Steve is the father. Steve himself goes into denial when told but comforts Emma when John dies and pays for the coffin which the girl can’t afford. Tracy demands to know why £600 is missing from their bank account. Steve gets a positive DNA test. On the day of his funeral, Morgan Middleton confirms to Emma that John wasn’t her father and Steve tries to alleviate her deep distress by telling her she still has a father - himself. Tracy is livid that her husband has yet another child. Emma can’t deal with the revelation and plans to leave the area, but Amy begs her to stay, saying she wants to get to know her sister. Emma agrees but avoids any contact with Steve.
• Dev and Asha return from India, with Aadi staying on there for a while longer. Dev’s relationship with his daughter remains distant. She begins wearing heavy clothes and has a secret box hidden under her bed. Finding out about Evelyn’s activities, Dev sacks her but reinstates her on a higher salary when he finds she significantly increased the profits in his absence. The twins pressure Dev into asking Mary to move out so they can have separate rooms.
• Alya gives up her plans to be a caterer when Ray turns down her business proposals. Ryan is angry that his mum is not supporting his girlfriend.

The Bailey family start being honest about their financial problems.

• Bernie collects a parking fine when she uses Chesney’s car without telling him. Ordered to pay it herself, she tries to conduct a fake charity collection in the Rovers until stopped by Jenny. She then sells samples of Gemma’s urine for positive pregnancy tests on the web. Michael finds out and takes a percentage in return for his silence. His parents discover about the scam and order him to stop as they think his previous activities have contributed to their family money problems. James has to lend his father money and Michael stops Ed gambling it away, making him reveal to Aggie that his addiction is what has really cost them their house and security. She returns to her husband after staying with a friend and takes a job at the cafe to help with their finances, even though her cooking is awful.
• Feeling smothered by Geoff, Yasmeen signs up for Ken's bridge club tournament but is stymied when Geoff also signs up as her partner. A fiercely competitive Mary wins the tournament. Geoff is enraged with Yasmeen, saying she belittled him throughout the evening. He sleeps in the spare room to punish her and then plays mind games with her, projecting his faults on to her. He installs a security system in No.6 and then walks out on her and stays with Tim, all the time watching her movements on the security camera. Keeping up a front of civility, he “helps” her change her banking password, all the time hinting that he has serious health problems, despite being given a clean bill of health by Dr Gaddas. Yasmeen falls for the ruse and worries that his symptoms indicate cancer.
• Bethany is in tears when Conrad Lombardi, a participant in Nathan Curtis’s sex parties, dines at the bistro with his family. An outraged Daniel sees the effect it has on her and tips soup over the customer. His wife, already knowing something of her husband’s activities, storms out and drives off, hitting Craig in her haste to be away, though he incurs no serious injuries. Daniel makes amends by publishing an article praising Craig and helps Bethany when she decides to write up about her experiences to help other girls in her position.
• Max stops taking his ADHD pills. Blaming Nick for his dad being in prison, he starts to physically attack him. David makes Shona realise she forgot Kylie Platt’s birthday and that was a part of the problem.
• Fiz and Hope return from Birmingham. Bessie Street School tells them there are no places left for the girl there and they appeal. Evelyn tries to force the issue by barricading herself in a classroom but to no avail. Fiz worries that Hope’s progress will be affected if she doesn’t get the stability of a school place.

September

• Yasmeen confides her worries about Geoff’s health in Tim and Sally, and he is forced to say that there is nothing wrong with him. He shows her his test results which indicates a clean bill of health, but Alya is suspicious that they have been printed off the internet. He manufactures a funny turn which Yasmeen falls for and gets him to move back into No.6. To ensure Alya can't return home, he moves his magic paraphernalia into her old room.
• Seb feels sorry for Mary when he finds she is living in a camper van. He invites her to move into No.11, but her chirpy demeanour gets on Eileen’s nerves. She demands that she moves out but feels guilty when Mary apologises for being too full-on and agrees she can stay.
• Sean investigates Eileen’s suspicious behaviour and realises she is going to leave with Jan. He begs the builder to leave without her and not endanger her by having her living under a witness protection programme. He does so and Eileen falls out with Sean out for his interference.
• Her behaviour little improved, Hope starts a fire in the empty factory unit and is rescued by Ali. She claims two boys were the arsonists, but Tyrone has his doubts. Fiz decides to home-school her but proves inept in the role. Evelyn and Roy compete as to who should teach the girl maths and Roy easily wins but cannot put in the hours. Fiz summons Jade Rowan, Hope’s favourite support teacher from Birmingham to assist. Evelyn grows suspicious of Jade when she finds her rifling through No.9.
• Craig has an underwhelming 21st birthday.
• Emma reluctantly accepts Steve’s help in clearing out John’s belongings. Feeling possessive, he tries to warn James off when he thinks he is chatting up his daughter, but Amy stops his interference. James helps fulfil John’s wishes of having his ashes scattered on the County ground. Emma is reluctant to get close to Steve but makes an approach after a chat with Audrey and finally accepts him as her dad.

The calm before the storm.

• Bethany is drawn to Daniel when he forces a reluctant Gazette to print her article and they almost kiss. Worrying that her cancer will return, Sinead grows jealous of the attention he is giving the girl and they brusquely agreed to cancel the wedding. Bethany assures Sinead that there is nothing going on between them. She also has to say the same to Audrey when she sees that her great-granddaughter is smitten. Sinead has not cancelled the wedding after all but instead surprises a delighted Daniel with the organised event. Whilst tidying up her niece’s hair before the reception, Beth spots a lump in her neck, and they realise that her cancer has returned. They go through with the party and make an immediate appointment with the oncologist who breaks the news that the condition is now terminal, and Sinead only has three or four months left. The shattered families come to terms with the news as the newlyweds try to decide whether to go ahead with chemo to delay the inevitable or have a higher quality of life in her final months. They visit a hospice which Sinead likes but Daniel wants to be the one to look after her. She has another round of chemo, but the side effects are as hard as ever, causing the couple to argue. Adam moves into the Rovers to give the Osbournes room in the flat.
• Ray makes Michelle a business offer that he franchises out his hotel restaurants to the bistro and that she oversees it. He lures her to hotel room to discuss the deal and she realises that he is a sex pest, telling him she doesn't do business that way. After initially rowing about the franchise, Robert grows enthusiastic about the idea, but Ray cancels the plan. Making up various subterfuges, Robert spends occasional nights with Vicky. She presents him with a silver necklace with "Big Daddy" inscribed on a tag.
• Still feeling guilty over Rana's death, Gary gives Kate £1,000 to go travelling, telling her it came from Derek as he is a rich man. Kate departs the street join Imogen in Singapore.
• As Abi continues to record Kevin's rants, Tyrone sets the two of them up on a date. Kevin explodes when he finds that she is uploading the videos of him to the web and fires her. He relents when he discovers that the publicity is bringing in extra business. It also brings a contact from Martine Skelton, an old girlfriend.
• Maria suspects Ali is having a fling with Emma and apologises when she finds out they were arranging for Emma to babysit Liam whilst Ali took her to a hotel for the night. Ali is agitated when the hospital’s pharmacist, Big Farmer, is arrested by the police. He asks Dr Gaddas for diazepam, and she realises he’s addicted. Ryan finds him having a fit and he admits he’s been addicted to benzodiazepine since Ronan Truman’s death with Big Farmer being his supplier. Ryan and Robert force him to detox. Toyah sees how tired he looks and suggests he gets professional help.
• Claudia announces that she's going to take Ken and his family to Venice for his 80th birthday but he wants to reduce the trip's timeline when he finds out how badly Daniel is coping. She seethes when the others go for the more extended break.
• Sophie signs up for college in a course on business management but finds it uninteresting. Paula puts an offer in on Claudia’s flat.
• Bernie is stopped for shoplifting but released by the store's head of security when he turns out to be Kel Hinchley, a former boyfriend. Bernie takes up with him again, pleasing Gemma but alarming Paul who reacts with horror to the man's return. Billy notices his discomfort and tries to find out what ails him, suspecting previous sexual abuse. Paul is angry and begins to drink heavily. Getting Paul to himself, Kel tells him that what they had was special but to put it behind them. Paul pleads with Chesney to evict Bernie from No.5. Billy is alarmed when he sees that Kel has been given the job of picking up Joseph from school and gets the child to safety by suggesting he comes and plays with him and Summer. The sight of an old photograph of Paul with Kel makes Paul open up to Billy who realises the older man groomed him for sex when he was a child. A drunk Paul badly attacks Kel when he tries to shut him up about what happened years before. Billy pleads with Paul to inform the police about his abuse before he is sent back to prison for the attack.
• Ed objects when Aggie plans a housewarming party, so she changes it to a surprise 55th birthday party for him instead. James is teased by Ed and Michael into asking Bethany out. The family are disappointed when lawyer daughter Dee-Dee Bailey can't make it home for the party. Daniel turns up at the party extremely drunk as his personal pressures increase and insults Bethany when she tries to help him. James offers her comfort, and she leans in for a kiss, but he pulls back admitting that he's gay. After being thoroughly taken aback, Bethany listens when James tells her of the difficulties of being a gay footballer who is still in the closet. She agrees to be his cover girlfriend, not realising that Michael is listening to them. He gets his brother on his own and pushes him into admitting to his sexuality. Aggie admits she's known since he was a little boy. An unwitting Ed is pleased with James’s choice of “girlfriend”.
• Derek is attracted to Izzy until he finds out that's Gary is the Jake’s father. Izzy is puzzled by his sudden lack of interest. He makes the excuse that he has lost his family due to drink and financial problems and is relying on Gary’s trust to rebuild his life. With Gary absent in Bristol, Derek signs a rental agreement with Nick at a reduced rate. When Gary returns, he is angry at the development and warns Derek to stay away from Izzy, but Derek tells him that he's his boss now and refuses. Becoming more like Rick in his methods, Gary loses patience with Ryan’s excuses for not repaying him and beats him up badly, not realising that his actions are being photographed by Lenny. Both Adam and Imran tried to get Ryan to admit what happened to him, but he is too scared. Instead, he warns Gary that Adam is having him followed. Gary gets at the detective and offers him more money to give Adam doctored photographs which don't put him in a bad light. After the spending the night with Izzy, Derek avoids her, scared off at the treatment that Ryan received. Ryan refuses a bribe from Adam to tell all. Adam becomes intrigued as to why a supposedly rich man like Derek lives in a small terrace house, but Sarah makes him drop his vendetta. Derek tells Izzy he's returned to his wife, Julia.
• Gary takes Fiz on at his furniture shop and begins to take an interest in Maria, trying to convince her that the gossip about him is unfounded.
• Max walks out of school but refuses to say why. When he overhears Audrey complaining about his behaviour, he tampers with the hair dye in the salon that is being used on Cathy. A visit to David doesn't improve his behaviour. He is suspended when he tries to sell his ADHD pills at school and the police are called in. Leanne warns him he will push people away if he doesn't start behaving.
• Dev asks Amy to push Asha into taking part in a school production of Bugsy Malone to bring her out of her shell. Asha shows Amy a selfie with a filter applied to make herself look pale. Amy sees a blood patch on Asha’s arm. She denies self-harming but admits to using creams to lighten her skin pigmentation, thinking it will make her more attractive. She works at the kebab shop for extra money but uses her father’s credit card to buy more of the cream. She is pleased when Corey shows an interest in her.
• Gemma is put on weekly scans when one shows that one baby is not growing as fast as the other three.

October

• Kel recovers from a coma and is questioned by the police but doesn't tell them that Paul was his attacker. Paul cannot bring himself to confess his crime to the police and Summer and Billy have to prevent him from fleeing from the area. Kel takes a temporary job down south.
• Dev is concerned when Asha starts to go out with Corey and asks Mary to give her a talk about the facts of life. She brings an end to her first date when Corey accidentally knocks her bleeding arm. Dev finds out about her purchase on his credit card and subsequently about the skin lightening cream. He's horrified that she considers herself ugly and blames himself for taking her to India where she gained the wrong impression from images of Bollywood actresses. Asha attempts to run away from home, but Liz persuades her to remain. Dr Gaddas prescribes counselling and Dev bonds with his daughter when they talk about their love for Sunita.
• Kevin is stood up by Martine. Debbie Webster returns after many years away, now a successful businesswoman, and tells him that their difficult and awkward Aunty Vi has died. She leaves Debbie £200,000 in her will and she’s willing to give it to her brother. Sophie persuades him to take it and share it out between them. Debbie advises her niece to spend the money recklessly, annoying Paula who thinks she's having an adverse influence on her. Paula sees that Sophie is unhappy and has a wanderlust. She pushes her into going travelling in Asia and they split up as Sophie leaves for pastures new. Abi gets Martine to go on a date with Kevin, but he realises she's a gold digger and that he is actually more interested in Abi herself.
• Ray makes Michelle's working life hell, and she takes it out on her family. Finding out what is happening, Robert applies for a chef's job at the Chariot Square Hotel under Steve’s name to take revenge against Ray, but Michelle finds out and stops him. She books a last-minute holiday for the two of them in Majorca and Robert reluctantly goes, lying to Vicky that he is on a cookery course there.

A welcome though brief return.

• Ken drops the Venice trip altogether, wanting to be with Daniel and Sinead in their hour of need. He celebrates his 80th birthday with a surprise party in the Rovers, part of which includes a video call with Emily Bishop, set up by surprise guest Norris.
• James helps Craig with a fitness plan when he wants to lose weight. Bethany writes a short story based on James's footballing experiences. He reads it and realises she is really writing about her love for Daniel.
• Sinead and Daniel struggle to take in the news that the chemo isn't working and there are now no options left, only pain relief for her final weeks. Everyone struggles to take in the news. Eileen and Sean drop their feud realising that life isn't worth it. Bertie is given a 1st birthday party several months in advance of the real date. Sinead deteriorates to the point where she needs a wheelchair and the help of district nurse Jessica Hadaway. The families plan an early surprise Christmas for her. Returning early from Venice, a genuinely sympathetic Tracy offers her help. Daniel doesn't take the families gesture well and, wound up by the falseness of the event, tries to second guess Sinead’s wants and wishes. His exasperated wife orders him out of the flat. Bethany offers him comfort and they end up kissing. They are found by Ken who orders his son back home to his dying wife. Sinead finds Bethany’s notes about her love story concerning Daniel and confronts her husband with it who admits to the kiss. She throws him out of the flat and her family turn against him. Daniel drinks heavily again and goes missing, spending the night by the canal. Tracy persuades them to reconcile though Sinead tells Daniel she is only forgiving him for Bertie’s sake. She records a long series of videos for Bertie to watch when he grows up. She spends her final days and hours with her family and slips quietly away when Daniel is reading to their son. As Daniel struggles with his grief, Beth is outraged to see Bethany comforting him and slaps the widower. Billy advises him to go away for a while with his son and he takes up the suggestion, going to Scotland.
• Tracy is uncharacteristically upset over Sinead’s death. Even more unusually, Liz makes an offer to her to accompany her on a break to Spain and Tracy accepts.
• Gary integrates himself further with Maria. He sacks Fiz in a fit of temper and is persuaded by Jade to take her back. Ali continues to use diazepam and falls asleep while looking after an ill Liam, leaving a burning pizza in the oven. As the flat fills with smoke, Gary rescues them. Maria thinks Ali's been drinking and finishes with him. Ryan hides his condition from their mother. Sarah sees Gary and Maria getting closer and warns him not to hurt Maria. Bethany also notices the growing friendship. Ali assures Toyah that he's weaning himself off the drug.
• Max starts to see Marion Logan on the quiet. Everyone forgets Shona's birthday. Sarah only finds out when she visits David who asks how her day went. Sarah makes up with flowers and a bistro meal. Max is unfairly blamed when Lily Platt pushes Harry who is knocked unconscious and he flees to his grandmother for support. She comes to No.8 and finds Shona tipsy after her meal out, saying she is an unfit mother to bring up her grandchild and she begins legal action for custody, employing an unwitting Adam as her lawyer. When he finds out who she is, he drops the case, claiming a conflict of interest. After mediation, Max chooses to continue living at No.8.
• David helps fellow inmate Abe Crowley from being found with a smuggled mobile phone. As the atmosphere within the jail gets more tense, violent inmate Tez Collier attacks a new prisoner for being a rapist and David sees it is Josh Tucker, his eyesight now restored. David confesses to Abe about what Josh did to him. Abe tells David a riot is being planned and it is his opportunity to kill Josh. When the unrest kicks off, David refuses to harm Josh, wanting him to face a court of law. Abe and Tez beat the rapist up instead. David tries to get Josh out of the way of the rioters but ends up being accused when Josh is stabbed. David admits to being present during the altercation but insists he is not to blame. Shona doesn't believe him and finishes with him. Josh is in a coma. David, Abe and Tez are charged with attempted murder and David is threatened with the consequences if he rats on them. Instead of being released at the end of his previous sentence, David is remanded to await a new trial. Josh comes round and claims David stabbed him.
• Alya helps out Ryan at the bistro making Speed Daal short staffed. A complaining Geoff takes the opportunity to suggest that he and Yasmeen ought to buy into the business as partners but Alya refuses. Geoff puts on a show of unhappiness and Yasmeen contacts Zeedan Nazir direct who, needing the funds, agrees to the proposition. Geoff wastes little time in suggesting to Yasmeen that the restaurant ought to have a licence. Immediately that the paperwork is signed, Geoff celebrates with alcohol in the restaurant.
• Gemma gets free VIP tickets to County in return for some publicity shots at the ground. She is horrified when she gets stuck in the turnstiles and has to be freed by the fire brigade while people laugh on. Chesney and Gemma start to receive large quantities of free items in return for the publicity. Rosa Vale, a PR specialist, offers to handle matters for them but annoys Gemma when she has to be rushed to hospital with a possible sudden premature birth and Rosa insists on recording Gemma’s distress. Gemma gets tired of carrying four babies. A Gazette photographer snaps a picture of Emma giving Chesney a friendly hug and publishes it, questioning if he is a love rat. Bernie makes matters worse when she gives an interview to Suki, saying much the same thing. As Gemma worries about whether she will be a good mother, Chesney determines to win her back with a proposal. Journalists besiege No.5. Wanting to get away, Gemma is keen to go to Llandudno where she enjoyed happy times as a child. Chesney proposes on the cable car where Gemma’s waters break and the entire system comes to a halt when Chesney pulls the emergency alarm. One of the boys is born before they are rescued. The second is a breach and the latter three are born by caesarean section and put in incubators. Gemma names them after the medical staff - Aled, Bryn, Carys and Llio. Chesney proposes.
• Gail returns from Thailand in a calmer frame of mind. She sees the distress that Bethany is in and comforts her. She summons a family conference and tells them that they all have to be unified to help David.
• When Fiz has to babysit Joseph, Tyrone and Jade enjoy a night with fish and chips. Fiz has to go to Wolverhampton when Cilla Battersby-Brown goes into hospital. Jade tells her she will look after her family. Evelyn worries that she is making a move on her grandson and is relieved when Michael steps in to help her set up a children’s Halloween party.

November

• David is staggered when Josh identifies him as the attacker. Shona makes last minute arrangements for their wedding, hoping that David will be released on time. Abe and Tez warn him that Shona and the children will be in danger if he grasses on them. Billy intercepts Nick when he attempts to pose as Josh's solicitor at the hospital to get him to change his statement. Billy unsuccessfully pleads David’s case with Josh himself. Paul learns from Billy about the rape and is horrified, likening it to his own abuse at the hands of Kel. He visits Josh in hospital and threatens him that he has enough clout with people in the prison to make his life a living hell unless he retracts his statement. Josh complies. David is released in time for his wedding. His relationship with Nick is also restored and he hears that Josh’s rape is being re investigated by the CPS. Gail treats the newlyweds to a honeymoon break. David decides to formally adopt Max, and Shona happily agrees to so the same with Max and Lily.
• Maria calls Ali in when Emma suffers stomach pains at work, but as Gary is present when he calls, he dismisses her concerns with no examination in order to get out quickly. Subsequently, Emma is rushed to hospital with a ruptured appendix. A furious Steve makes sure that Ali is reported for negligence and offers Emma a place to recuperate with him when she's discharged. Seeing Maria comforting an upset Ali with a kiss, a jealous Gary tells Lenny Isaacs to dig up what he can on him. At the same time, Ali discovers that Ryan's beating was courtesy of Gary and finds proof of his loan shark activities. He confronts Gary, who counters with evidence of Ali’s drug taking that he has found. It is Ali who backs down when the two men threaten each other. Gary warns Ali to stay away from Maria and doubles the interest on Ryan's debt as punishment for him talking about his beating. Ali successfully weans himself off the drugs and is reinstated when Emma and Maria plead his case but he is forced to take time off to sort himself out. Amy is unhappy when Emma returns home after she recovers, saying she has loved having her sister close to her.
• The quads have to remain in Llandudno though the hospital has no room for Gemma herself. Cathy arranges for a local hotel to accommodate her for free in exchange for publicity about the “cable car quads”. Joseph feels left out and Chesney has to tell him how important he is to his new brothers and sisters. As the babies are transferred to Weatherfield General, the couple are stunned to get an offer for £60,000 pounds from Freshco to use the quads in their publicity.
• Jade avoids Evelyn's attempts to matchmake between her and Michael. Behaving for no one except Jade, Hope is accused of starting a fire in No.9’s backyard when she is denied a bonfire night party. It is actually Jade who was started the conflagration, trying to create a division between the little girl and her family. She hides a letter saying that Hope can return to Bessie Street but Brian lets slip about its contents to Evelyn who watches the girl like a hawk and begins to counter her machinations while Fiz and Tyrone think they are losing the battle to control their daughter. At night, an upset Jade visits the grave of her father: John Stape. Jade photographs fake bruises on Hope's arm and drops hints to Dr Gaddas that Fiz is hitting her daughter. Fiz asks Jade if she can move out in order that they can have a new start with Hope. An unhappy Jade gives Hope a present of a phone in order that they can keep in touch, but gets the little girl to agree to keep it secret from her parents.
• Abi sails through a GCSE exam, even though she is hungover. When Sally accuses Abi of only being interested in Kevin for his inheritance, the two row and Abi is about to take up an offer from Kevin to move into No.13 when Sally apologises for her outburst.
• Beth misreads Carla’s motives and accuses her of trying to steal her dead niece’s business, until she is told she is trying to secure an investment for Bertie. The Tinkers clash with the Barlow's with their tasteless suggestions for Sinead’s funeral. Daniel refuses to return for the funeral so Ken and Claudia make an unsuccessful trip to find him in Scotland. Peter locates him in Cheshire. He returns though still refusing to attend the funeral until persuaded to do so by Beth. He further upsets the Tinkers when he makes an atheist speech at the service.
• Roy’s friends grow concerned for him when he gets hooked on online Scrabble and Roy explains to Carla that he thinks his opponent is his half-brother, Richard Lucas, who he tracked down after reading through his mother’s correspondence. Carla encourages him to visit. When she goes with him, they find that Richard never knew who his parents were, he has a Goth daughter named Nina and he is dying of pulmonary fibrosis. Richard is delighted to have a brother, but Nina is cold towards her new uncle and Carla. Roy is delighted when Richard pays a visit to see his cafe and meet his many friends, but the trip exhausts him and a hostile Nina blames Roy for overexerting her him. Matters are not helped when Roy's complaints about Richard's carer cause her to quit and Roy offers to take her place. Aggie fills in for him at the cafe.
• Cathy suspects Asha is having problems at school.

The two woman in Robert's life square up to each other.

• Emma and Robert discover that Amy is seeing Tyler behind everyone's back. Robert tells Steve who orders his daughter to drop her boyfriend. Michelle wonders why Robert got involved. Robert ends up in hospital after a car accident near Macclesfield following a visit to Tyler to smooth things over. Rushing to his bedside, Michelle is puzzled what he was doing in that area and what his “Big Daddy” necklace is about. Robert distracts her by telling her about Ali’s drug addiction, but Michelle discovers Robert has had another woman visitor. Investigating, she and Carla go to a Macclesfield address on his phone and are just in time to see him being thrown out of Vicky’s house after he has told her he wants to finish with her. Visiting Vicky herself, Michelle realises the pack of lies she's been led by her fiancé. Putting on a show of togetherness with Robert, behind his back she makes arrangements with Adam to take the bistro off him. Vicky cuts Robert dead when she realises that he and Michelle are supposedly back together. Michelle plans a surprise wedding to Robert, informing an alarmed Carla that she is actually planning to get her revenge on him at the event.
• Ray pushes Michelle too far and she walks out of the job. She accepts an offer for £20,000 tied in with a gagging order which she breaks by warning Alya of Ray’s true character when she offers to take her place on the franchise. Ray convinces Alya that Michelle felt embarrassed by a shared attraction they had for each other. Ray sues Michelle for defamation of character and breach of contract. Adam tells her such contracts are rarely enforceable and is proven right when Ray drops the case.
• Geoff continues to keep Yasmeen off balance, both dropping hints that he is going to leave her and making her feel guilty that she doesn't appreciate him enough. Thoroughly cowed, she goes on a surprise trip to Las Vegas that he has been planning.
• Kel returns. Billy warns him to stay away from Joseph. Paul refuses to be involved with his puzzled family while Kel is around. Paul finds out from David how Shona supported him over the rape and realises that Billy has been a similar rock to him. They kiss and Billy invites him to move in with him. Bernie gets the job of cleaning St. Mary's Church. Daniel and another parishioner are broken into whilst out at services conducted by Billy and he realises his church diary has also gone missing. Daniel is sent over the edge as his laptop was stolen and it contained the only copy of Sinead’s videos. He attacks a cash converters when he thinks they have the device but is let off by the sympathetic owner. Beth sees how broken he is and build bridges with him. Bernie is suspected of one of the thefts but has an unimpeachable alibi. She remembers that Kel went with her when she was cleaning the church and was in Billy's office alone for a few minutes. She and Gemma investigate at his flat and find Daniel’s stolen laptop among the items together with pictures of naked boys, including Paul. Bernie and Gemma are shocked to hear the full story of how he was groomed as a child by Kel. Bernie reports him to the police. When he is arrested and questioned, Kel locks himself with Bernie inside No.5 to plead his case but she is rescued by her children. Supported by Billy, Paul starts to see a counsellor.
• James has to retrieve his phone from the flat of Dan, a man who he had a drunken one-night stand. James is terrified that his homosexuality will be exposed but the phone is handed over without a problem. Whilst helping him, Michael spots Grace Vickers, an old girlfriend and sees that she now has a baby, presuming the child is his. Despite having doubts about Michael’s reliability in being a father, Grace lets him see the little girl, Tianna. Aggie, always having disliked Grace, spoils things by consulting Adam about formal access rights. Michael begs for another chance, alongside maintenance payments, and Grace reluctantly agrees.
• Ken is hospitalised with pneumonia.
• Ed’s rebuild of Underworld nears completion. Nick confesses to Sarah that his plan is to continue just packing and distribution and no manufacturing. Staff revolt when they find out, and threatened to strike, even though they are shareholders. Sarah presents an alternative plan: making bespoke lingerie and selling them direct to the public, cutting out the middleman.
• Steve is delighted when Emma cancels a planned trip to Australia in order to spend Christmas with him. She also starts to see Seb when he makes it clear that he fancies her.

December

• Robert and Michelle announce their wedding plans at a family gathering. Vicky interrupts, threatening to take Robert for everything he's got. Michelle persuades Robert to sign over the bistro to her to protect it. Robert returns from a visit to Vicky to persuade her to stay away with blood on his temple after a heated row. When it comes to saying her vows at the service, Michelle instead reads aloud Vicky’s texts proving Robert’s duplicity and then thanks him for giving her the bistro. Tyler also interrupts the event as his mother has gone missing, insinuating that Robert has done something to her. The police investigate the evidence against Robert, all concocted in a plan drawn up between Michelle, Vicky and Tyler. In the cheap hotel that Vicky is hiding in, Michelle helps her when she suddenly gives birth to a son, who she names Sonny. Paramedics are summoned which leads to the police finding her and the charge against Robert being dismissed. Robert attempts to blackmail Michelle into helping him see his son but finds himself unable to follow through with the threat.
• Hope keeps Jade up to date about her arguments with Fiz using the phone. She causes chaos at the school nativity, upset that she doesn't have the starring role. Punished for her infractions, she rings Jade who tells her to keep a diary of what is going on. Jade turns up at a soup kitchen run by Billy and Sean, claiming she is jobless and homeless. Against Evelyn’s advice, Fiz and Tyrone take her back in.
• Amy and Asha are delighted when Bugsy Malone is a huge success.
• Daniel’s laptop is returned, and he spends hours obsessively watching Sinead’s videos. His family take him to the bistro to take his mind off matters, but he runs out and is knocked down by a passing Cathy in her car. Bethany makes him see that Sinead forgave him, and he resolves to start afresh. Bethany isn't interested when James tries to set her up with Sam, one of his teammates.
• Roy takes over Richard’s day care to enable Nina to go to art college. She refuses his offer of financial assistance. He finds out that she shares his interest in bats. Roy and Richard thoroughly enjoy what short time they have together. Roy has to attend to an emergency at the cafe and leaves Richard on his own. Returning to his flat, Roy finds his brother collapsed and the paramedics are unable to do anything for him as he dies. Nina is disconsolate when she finds out that her father was left alone and holes herself up in the flat. Roy says he will return every day until she lets him in.
• Seb and Emma spend their first date at a Rovers’ quiz night. Thinking she's a fan of Iron Maiden, Seb obtains tickets to a tribute act. She's thrilled at the effort he went to, although she dislikes the band. Seb is thrown when Alina returns looking for him. Emma realises he is in love with the girl and finishes with him, but he denies having feelings for her.
• David prompts Paul to tell the Underworld staff what happened to him, gaining a sympathetic reaction. Bernie goes with Chesney to the shopping centre where Kel works as a security guard and loudly announces what he has done. Chesney is arrested in a scuffle and given a caution. Kel tells Gemma and Bernie that the police found nothing incriminating on him and Paul’s evidence isn’t enough. Bernie tries to entrap Kal, posing as a 14-year-old boy on his website who wants DJ lessons.
• Geoff and Yasmeen return from Las Vegas with the news that they are married. Alya is appalled. The Metcalfe's hold a party to celebrate. Geoff finds excuses not to help with the preparations but makes Yasmeen clean the house thoroughly. He lavishes praise on his wife during the party but afterwards makes her eat crab meat from the bin that Cathy rejected as it had shell fragments in it.
• Tim learns from his father that Vegas weddings are lawful and confesses to Steve and Kevin that fifteen years ago he drunkenly married air hostess Charlotte Wood in the resort and has never got divorced. His only legal hope is that the marriage was never consummated, and he sets out to track Charlie down to find out if that was the case. Once found, she dashes his hopes. When Sally talks of renewing their vows, Tim sees an opportunity to divorce Charlie and marry Sally properly without her finding out about the bigamy. Warned by Imran that a speedy divorce and re-marriage will raise a red flag with the authorities, Tim comes clean to a shocked Sally.
• The quads are all released from hospital at once, leaving Chesney and Gemma struggling to cope, even with help from family and friends on a rota basis. They also have to find time to accommodate the demands of Freshco’s publicist Tara Swift.
• Maria is worried about Gary's commitment to her when he continues to show an interest in Sarah. He assures her that he was only worried that she and Nick were planning something against him. Gary's instincts proved correct when the siblings make an offer to buy the factory from a financially desperate Derek. Maria tells Gary she’s pregnant. He buys her a flashy 4x4 and looks at 5 Victoria Court for them to live in. Hearing how he is splashing money around, Ali tells Maria her boyfriend is a thuggish loan shark. Gary comes up with a convincing excuse, making Ali look bitter and jealous. Nearing a breakdown, Derek drinks to excess and spills the beans to Izzy about the deal with Nick and Sarah. She in turn tells Gary, who threatens to kill Derek unless he sells the factory to him for £1 and leave the area permanently.
• Market trader Big Garth organises a Weatherfield Winter Wonderland on Brewery Lane. The results are not impressive, and Michael offers to assist for a share of the profits. He obtains classier attractions, and ropes in Ed as Father Christmas. Refusing an invitation to come to No.3 on Christmas Day, Grace agrees to come with Tianna for the grand re-opening but puzzles Michael when she fails to appear.

The Underworld staff toast their new premises.

• The rebuilt Underworld is opened with a Christmas party during which Gary breaks the news that he is the new landlord. Feeling he is being disrespected by Nick and Sarah, he raises their rent.
• Rita is upset when no one volunteers to step in and feed an old lady’s cat for her while she visits Emily in Edinburgh. The trip is called off anyway as Emily has bronchitis. Rita is delighted to receive a flying visit from Norris who is looking for a flat in the area but feels lonely without Gemma and Paul in her home. She feels she is being treated as a charity case when Jenny takes her out. Not wanting to be a burden on Gemma, Rita spins a yarn that she is spending Christmas with Mavis Wilton but has a bad fall and lies on the floor of her flat for a day and night until Jenny finds her. Released after a short spell in hospital, Jenny takes her into the Rovers for Christmas.
• Derek ignores Gary’s threat and tries to blackmail him for money, desperate to pay for a trip to Florida for a family holiday to save his troubled marriage. Gary maliciously ties him up overnight in the furniture shop to make sure he misses the flight, and only releases him the next day. Fiz brings in some house clearance items including an antique gun which Derek steals, going gunning for Gary on Christmas Day. He finds him in a packed Rovers and demonstrates what he means to do by firing a shot through the glass of the doors, mortally wounding Robert outside, despite Aggie's attempts to save him. Derek chases Gary to the Winter Wonderland where a tussle over the gun ends with Shona being shot whilst visiting the attraction and Derek falling to his death off the helter-skelter. Gary is hailed a hero and he and Fiz try to cover up about the source of the gun as the police investigate the incident. However, Hope saw the weapon when Fiz first took it into the shop and tells a shocked Tyrone.
• Shona suffers a cardiac arrest while being treated in hospital, during which her brain is starved of oxygen. She falls into a coma.
• Michelle puts the bistro up for sale and is appalled when a mystery buyer turns out to be Ray. Carla has to stop her from wrecking the premises before she hands over the keys. Michelle and Vicky both regret Robert’s death and their actions in his last few months of life. They both move to Ireland; Vicky with Jed and her sons, and Michelle to be with her family.
• Adam and Sarah become engaged.
• Ali reports Gary to the police for operating as a loan shark but they cannot take action due to lack of evidence. Having met Julia Milligan and heard her side of the story, Izzy also accuses Gary in the Rovers. Back home, Gary admits the true nature of his occupation to Maria who works out that he was also responsible for the Underworld roof collapse. When Maria sees Gary giving up his activities of his own volition, she decides to stick with him for the sake of their baby.
• Paula gives Amy a work experience placement at the solicitors.
• Ryan leaves his bistro job, unable to work for Ray. The businessman entices Bethany and Faye with talk of one of them becoming manager. He outrages Jenny and Johnny by copying their idea for a New Year’s Eve party with an hour of free drinks. Although Kevin and Abi fancy each other, they also misread each other’s signals and Abi ends up kissing Ray at the bistro’s New Year’s Eve party.
• When Steve lies to Tracy to get out of taking her to gig, she ends up getting drunk with Paula who takes a fancy to her.

Who lives where

Coronation Street

• Rovers Return Inn - Johnny and Jenny Connor. Kate Connor (until January and from March until September). Michelle and Ryan Connor (from March and until June). Ali Neeson (from March until July). Adam Barlow (from September). Robert Preston (December only).
• 1 Coronation Street - Ken Barlow. Simon Barlow (until June and from July). Peter Barlow (until April and from July). Carla Connor (April only). Roy Cropper (from May until June). Claudia Colby (from August).
• Audreys Salon flat (No.2a) - Maria Connor and Liam Connor. Emma Brooker. Bethany Platt (from January).
• 3 Coronation Street - Angie and George Appleton (until January). Ed, Aggie, Michael and James Bailey (from June).
• 4 Coronation Street - Tim Metcalfe. Faye Windass. Sally Metcalfe and Abi Franklin (from January). Geoff Metcalfe (August only).
• 5 Coronation Street - Chesney and Joseph Brown. Gemma Winter (from March until April, and from July). Bernie Winter (from July). Aled, Bryn, Carys and Llio Winter-Brown (from October).
• 6 Coronation Street - Yasmeen Nazir/Metcalfe. Alya Nazir (until July). Geoff Metcalfe (from March until August, and from September).
• 7 Coronation Street - Dev, Aadi and Asha Alahan. Mary Cole (until August).
• 8 Coronation Street - Gail Rodwell. David Platt (until July and from November). Lily Platt. Max Turner. Shona Ramsey/Platt. Sarah and Harry Platt (from January). Gary Windass (from January until April). Bethany Platt (January only). Audrey Roberts (from February until May).
• 9 Coronation Street - Tyrone and Ruby Dobbs. Evelyn Plummer (until January and from March). Roy Cropper (July only). Fiz and Hope Stape (from August). Jade Rowan (from September).
• Kabin flat (No.10a) - Rita Tanner. Gemma Winter (until March and from April until July). Paul Foreman (from February until November).
• 11 Coronation Street - Eileen Grimshaw. Seb Franklin. Jan Lozinski (from April until August). Mary Cole (from September).
• 12 Coronation Street - Brian Packham, Cathy Matthews. Alex Warner.
• 13 Coronation Street - Kevin and Jack Webster. Sophie Webster (until October). Gina Seddon (from February until April). Paula Martin (July only).
• Corner Shop flat (No.15a) - Adam Barlow (until February and from May until September). Daniel Osbourne. Sinead Tinker/Osbourne (until October). Bertie Osbourne (from March).

Rosamund Street

• Preston's Petals flat (No.19a) - Billy Mayhew, Summer Spellman. Sean Tully. Paul Foreman (from November).

Victoria Street

• Jamila House flat (No.14a) - Empty.
• Street Cars flat (No.15a) - Steve and Tracy McDonald. Amy Barlow. Liz McDonald.
• Roy's Rolls flat (No.16a) - Roy Cropper (until May, June until July and from July). Carla Connor (until April, from May until June and from July). Peter Barlow (from May until June).
• Prima Doner flat (No.18a) - Kirk and Beth Sutherland. Gina Seddon (until February).
• Builder's Yard flat (No.19a) - Craig Tinker. Rana Habeeb (until March). Kate Connor (from January until March). Imran Habeeb and Toyah Battersby (from May). Alya Nazir (from July).

Victoria Court

• 8 Victoria Court - Gary Windass, Sarah, Bethany and Harry Platt (until January).
• 9 Victoria Court - Robert Preston (until December). Michelle and Ryan Connor (until March and from June). Ali Neeson (until March).
• 12 Victoria Court - Leanne and Oliver Battersby. Nick Tilsley. Imran Habeeb and Toyah Battersby (until May).

Redbank Apartments

• Unknown address - Claudia Colby (until September). Paula Martin (from October).

Others

• Crimea Street - Gary Windass (from August).
• 5 Grasmere Drive - Audrey Roberts (until February and from May). Lewis Archer (until January).
• 28 Grayling Street - Izzy Armstrong and Jake Windass. Gary Windass (from April until August).
• Flat 5, 4 Thorn Road - Nina Lucas (until December).

Awards and nominations

BAFTA
Ceremony held on 12th May 2019

• Best Soap and Continuing Drama: Coronation Street (Nominee)

British Soap Awards
Ceremony televised on 1st June 2019

• Best British Soap: Coronation Street (Nominee)
• Best Actor: Jack P. Shepherd (Nominee)
• Best Actress: Alison King (Nominee)
• Best Male Dramatic Performance: Rob Mallard (Nominee)
• Best Female Dramatic Performance: Katie McGlynn (Nominee)
• Best Young Actor: Elle Mulvaney (Nominee)
• Villain of the Year: Rick Neelan (Nominee)
• Best Comedy Performance: Patti Clare (Nominee)
• Scene of the Year: Gail's monologue from Episode 9451/2 (9th May 2018) (Winner)
• Best On-Screen Partnership: Simon Gregson and Kate Ford (Nominee)
• Best Newcomer: Alexandra Mardell (Winner)
• Best Storyline: The Impact of Aidan's Suicide (Winner)
• Best Single Episode: Episode 9451 (Winner)
• Lifetime achievement award: Sue Nicholls

Broadcast Awards
Ceremony held on 6th February 2019

• Best Soap/Continuing Drama: Coronation Street (Winner)

Inside Soap Awards
Winners announced on 7th October 2019

• Best Soap: Coronation Street (Nominee)
• Best Actor: Jack P. Shepherd (Nominee)
• Best Actress: Alison King (Nominee)
• Funniest Male: Joe Duttine (Nominee)
• Funniest Female: Patti Clare (Nominee), Maureen Lipman (Nominee)
• Best Newcomer: Maureen Lipman (Winner)
• Best Bad Boy: Mikey North (Nominee)
• Soap Superstar: Sally Dynevor (Winner)
• Best Shock Twist: Gary is the factory killer! (Nominee)
• Best Exit: Bhavna Limbachia (Nominee)
• Best Show-Stopper: Carla's mental health episode (Winner), The factory collapse (Nominee)

National Television Awards
Ceremony held on 22nd January 2019

• Serial Drama: Coronation Street (Nominee)
• Serial Drama Performance: Jack P. Shepherd (Nominee)
• Best Newcomer: Alexandra Mardell (Nominee)

Royal Television Society Awards
Ceremony held on 19th March 2019

• Soap and Continuing Drama: Coronation Street (Nominee)

Royal Television Society (North West) Awards
Ceremony held on 23rd November 2019

• Best Performance in A Continuing Drama: Rob Mallard (Winner), Katie McGlynn (Nominee)
• Best Continuing Drama Storyline: Sinead's Cancer (Winner), Carla's Psychosis (Nominee)
• Best Entertainment Programme: The Big Soap Quiz: Coronation Street vs Emmerdale (Nominee)
• Judge's Award: Russell T. Davies

Television and Radio Industries Club ("TRIC") Awards
Ceremony held on 12th March 2019

• Soap of the Year: Coronation Street (Nominee)

TV Choice Awards
Ceremony held on 9th September 2019

• Best Soap: Coronation Street (Nominee)
• Best Soap Newcomer: Maureen Lipman (Nominee)
• Best Soap Actress: Alison King (Winner)
• Best Soap Actor: Jack P. Shepherd (Nominee)

Writers' Guild Awards

• Best Long Running TV Series - Jonathan Harvey for Episode 9451 (Winner)