2022 was Coronation Street's sixty-third year.
Main characters
(as of Episode 10703/4 (29th July 2022)).
Production
To be added
Viewing figures
To be added
Episodes
| # | Ep. No. |
Date | Part | Writer | Director | Viewing Figures |
Chart Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10526 | Monday 3rd January | 1 | Owen Lloyd-Fox | John Anderson | 5,773,000 | 9 |
| 2 | 10527 | Monday 3rd January | 2 | Joe Turner | John Anderson | 5,481,000 | 12 |
| 3 | 10528/9 | Tuesday 4th January | Susan Oudot Jan McVerry |
John Anderson | 5,150,000 | 18 | |
| 4 | 10530 | Wednesday 5th January | 1 | Steven Fay | Kevin Boyle | 5,689,000 | 10 |
| 5 | 10531 | Wednesday 5th January | 2 | Mark Wadlow | Paul Copeland | 5,273,000 | 14 |
| 6 | 10532 | Monday 10th January | 1 | Julie Jones | Paul Copeland | 5,526,000 | 12 |
| 7 | 10533 | Monday 10th January | 2 | Debbie Oates | Paul Copeland | 4,987,000 | 24 |
| 8 | 10534 | Wednesday 12th January | 1 | Sam Holdsworth | Paul Copeland | 5,554,000 | 10 |
| 9 | 10535 | Wednesday 12th January | 2 | Alasdair Morrison | Paul Copeland | 5,233,000 | 18 |
| 10 | 10536/7 | Friday 14th January | David Isaac Simon Crowther |
Afia Nkrumah | 5,737,000 | 7 | |
| 11 | 10538 | Monday 17th January | 1 | John Kerr | Afia Nkrumah | 5,784,000 | 7 |
| 12 | 10539 | Monday 17th January | 2 | Damon Alexis-Rochefort | Afia Nkrumah | 5,580,000 | 9 |
| 13 | 10540 | Wednesday 19th January | 1 | Alasdair Morrison | Lee Trevor | 5,574,000 | 10 |
| 14 | 10541 | Wednesday 19th January | 2 | Alasdair Morrison | Lee Trevor | 5,302,000 | 16 |
| 15 | 10542/3 | Friday 21st January | Owen Lloyd-Fox Nessah Muthy |
Lee Trevor | 5,649,000 | 8 | |
| 16 | 10544 | Monday 24th January | 1 | Joe Turner | Ian Barber | 5,858,000 | 9 |
| 17 | 10545 | Monday 24th January | 2 | Joe Turner | Ian Barber | 5,762,000 | 10 |
| 18 | 10546 | Wednesday 26th January | 1 | Cameron McAllister | Ian Barber | 5,699,000 | 12 |
| 19 | 10547 | Wednesday 26th January | 2 | Julie Jones | Ian Barber | 5,316,000 | 15 |
| 20 | 10548/9 | Friday 28th January | Chris Fewtrell | Leon Lopez | 5,760,000 | 11 | |
| 21 | 10550 | Monday 31st January | 1 | Mark Wadlow | Leon Lopez | 5,868,000 | 6 |
| 22 | 10551 | Monday 31st January | 2 | Steven Fay | Leon Lopez | 5,536,000 | 8 |
| 23 | 10552/3 | Tuesday 1st February | Sam Holdsworth | Gill Wilkinson | 4,904,000 | 22 | |
| 24 | 10554 | Wednesday 2nd February | 1 | David Proud | Gill Wilkinson | 5,326,000 | 9 |
| 25 | 10555 | Wednesday 2nd February | 2 | Carmel Morgan | Gill Wilkinson | 4,884,000 | 23 |
| 26 | 10556 | Monday 7th February | 1 | Jonathan Harvey | Vicky Thomas | 5,523,000 | 8 |
| 27 | 10557 | Monday 7th February | 2 | Jonathan Harvey | Vicky Thomas | 5,322,000 | 11 |
| 28 | 10558 | Wednesday 9th February | 1 | Debbie Oates | Vicky Thomas | 5,471,000 | 9 |
| 29 | 10559 | Wednesday 9th February | 2 | Susan Oudot | Vicky Thomas | 5,122,000 | 14 |
| 30 | 10560/1 | Friday 11th February | Cameron McAllister Susan Oudot |
George C. Siougas | 5,241,000 | 13 | |
| 31 | 10562 | Monday 14th February | 1 | Nessah Muthy | George C. Siougas | 5,677,000 | 9 |
| 32 | 10563 | Monday 14th February | 2 | Ian Kershaw | George C. Siougas | 5,556,000 | 12 |
| 33 | 10564 | Wednesday 16th February | 1 | David Proud | Duncan Foster | 5,672,000 | 10 |
| 34 | 10565 | Wednesday 16th February | 2 | Chris Fewtrell | Duncan Foster | 5,241,000 | 17 |
| 35 | 10566/7 | Friday 18th February | David Isaac | Duncan Foster | 6,095,000 | 6 | |
| 36 | 10568 | Monday 21st February | 1 | Damon Alexis-Rochefort | Sean Healy | 5,800,000 | 6 |
| 37 | 10569 | Monday 21st February | 2 | Ella Greenhill | Sean Healy | 5,521,000 | 8 |
| 38 | 10570 | Wednesday 23rd February | 1 | Owen Lloyd-Fox | Sean Healy | 5,427,000 | 11 |
| 39 | 10571 | Wednesday 23rd February | 2 | Debbie Oates | Sean Healy | 5,201,000 | 15 |
| 40 | 10572/3 | Friday 25th February | Jan McVerry Jonathan Harvey |
Emma Lindley | 5,607,000 | 7 | |
| 41 | 10574/5 | Monday 28th February | Simon Crowther Carmel Morgan |
Emma Lindley | 5,364,000 | 7 | |
| 42 | 10576/7 | Friday 4th March | Joe Turner Mark Wadlow |
Jason Wingard | 5,336,000 | 8 | |
| 43 | 10578/9 | Sunday 6th March | Sam Holdsworth Steven Fay |
Jason Wingard | 4,756,000 | 17 | |
| 44 | 10580/1 | Monday 7th March | Ellen Taylor | Peter Rose | 5,664,000 | 7 | |
| 45 | 10582/3 | Wednesday 9th March | Emily Gascoyne | Peter Rose | 5,472,000 | 8 | |
| 46 | 10584/5 | Friday 11th March | Sam Holdsworth Susan Oudot |
Dominic Stephenson | 5,410,000 | 9 | |
| 47 | 10586/7 | Monday 14th March | Ian Kershaw Debbie Oates |
Dominic Stephenson | 5,621,000 | 2 | |
| 48 | 10588/9 | Wednesday 16th March | John Kerr | Pip Short | 5,195,000 | 5 | |
| 49 | 10590/1 | Friday 18th March | Damon Alexis-Rochefort Alasdair Morrison |
Pip Short | 5,430,000 | 3 | |
| 50 | 10592/3 | Monday 21st March | Jan McVerry | John Anderson | 5,549,000 | 2 | |
| 51 | 10594/5 | Wednesday 23rd March | Emily Gascoyne Jonathan Harvey |
John Anderson | 5,395,000 | 3 | |
| 52 | 10596/7 | Friday 25th March | Joe Turner Chris Fewtrell |
Kevin Boyle | 5,246,000 | 5 | |
| 53 | 10598/9 | Monday 28th March | David Proud Simon Crowther |
Clive Arnold | 5,525,000 | 1 | |
| 54 | 10600/1 | Wednesday 30th March | Ellen Taylor Nessah Muthy |
Clive Arnold | 5,063,000 | 5 | |
| 55 | 10602/3 | Friday 1st April | Owen Lloyd-Fox | Leon Lopez | 5,423,000 | 2 | |
| 56 | 10604/5 | Monday 4th April | Cameron McAllister Mark Wadlow |
Leon Lopez | 5,513,000 | 1 | |
| 57 | 10606/7 | Wednesday 6th April | Carmel Morgan Julie Jones |
Abe Juckes | 5,106,000 | 3 | |
| 58 | 10608/9 | Friday 8th April | David Isaac Steven Fay |
Abe Juckes | 5,111,000 | 2 | |
| 59 | 10610/1 | Monday 11th April | Susan Oudot | Matt Holt | 5,253,000 | 4 | |
| 60 | 10612/3 | Wednesday 13th April | Sam Holdsworth Alasdair Morrison |
Lee Trevor Matt Holt |
5,093,000 | 6 | |
| 61 | 10614/5 | Friday 15th April | Owen Lloyd-Fox Debbie Oates |
Matt Holt | 5,149,000 | 5 | |
| 62 | 10616/7 | Monday 18th April | John Kerr Carmel Morgan |
Tim O'Mara | 5,309,000 | 5 | |
| 63 | 10618/9 | Wednesday 20th April | Ian Kershaw Damon Alexis-Rochefort |
Tim O'Mara | 5,110,000 | 6 | |
| 64 | 10620/1 | Friday 22nd April | Chris Fewtrell David Isaac |
Sean Healy | 5,028,000 | 7 | |
| 65 | 10622/3 | Monday 25th April | Simon Crowther | Sean Healy | 5,164,000 | 2 | |
| 66 | 10624/5 | Wednesday 27th April | Mark Burt Nessah Muthy |
Becky Wild | 4,952,000 | 6 | |
| 67 | 10626/7 | Friday 29th April | Julie Jones | Becky Wild | 5,136,000 | 3 | |
| 68 | 10628/9 | Monday 2nd May | Ellen Taylor Emily Gascoyne |
Peter Rose | 4,964,000 | 7 | |
| 69 | 10630/1 | Wednesday 4th May | Cameron McAllister David Proud |
Peter Rose | 4,944,000 | 8 | |
| 70 | 10632/3 | Friday 6th May | Jonathan Harvey Steven Fay |
Nickie Lister | 5,078,000 | 4 | |
| 71 | 10634/5 | Monday 9th May | Joe Turner Mark Wadlow |
Nickie Lister | 5,334,000 | 4 | |
| 72 | 10636/7 | Wednesday 11th May | Mark Wadlow Cameron McAllister |
Alex Jacob | 4,917,000 | 7 | |
| 73 | 10638/9 | Friday 13th May | Alasdair Morrison David Isaac |
Alec Jacob | 4,921,000 | 6 | |
| 74 | 10640/1 | Monday 16th May | John Kerr David Proud |
Sarah Kendell | 5,100,000 | 3 | |
| 75 | 10642/3 | Wednesday 18th May | Damon Alexis-Rochefort | Sarah Kendell | 5,053,000 | 5 | |
| 76 | 10644/5 | Friday 20th May | Jonathan Harvey Chris Fewtrell |
Pip Short | 5,082,000 | 4 | |
| 77 | 10646/7 | Monday 23rd May | Susan Oudot Simon Crowther |
Pip Short | 5,426,000 | 7 | |
| 78 | 10648/9 | Wednesday 25th May | Mark Burt Julie Jones |
Abe Juckes | 4,962,000 | 11 | |
| 79 | 10650/1 | Friday 27th May | Nessah Muthy Emily Gascoyne |
Abe Juckes | 5,180,000 | 10 | |
| 80 | 10652 | Monday 30th May | Ella Greenhill | David Kester | 5,284,000 | 13 | |
| 81 | 10653 | Tuesday 31st May | Ellen Taylor | David Kester | 5,439,000 | 11 | |
| 82 | 10654 | Wednesday 1st June | Ellen Taylor | David Kester | 5,078,000 | 16 | |
| 83 | 10655 | Thursday 2nd June | Ian Kershaw | David Kester | 5,156,000 | 15 | |
| 84 | 10656 | Friday 3rd June | Jan McVerry | David Kester | 5,329,000 | 12 | |
| 85 | 10657/8 | Monday 6th June | Owen Lloyd-Fox | Kevin Boyle | 5,325,000 | 3 | |
| 86 | 10659/60 | Wednesday 8th June | Debbie Oates | Kevin Boyle | 5,043,000 | 5 | |
| 87 | 10661/2 | Friday 10th June | Owen Lloyd-Fox | Tim O'Mara | 5,074,000 | 4 | |
| 88 | 10663/4 | Monday 13th June | Ellen Taylor | Tim O'Mara | 5,328,000 | 3 | |
| 89 | 10665/6 | Wednesday 15th June | Simon Crowther | Merlyn Rice | 5,164,000 | 4 | |
| 90 | 10667/8 | Friday 17th June | John Kerr Sam Holdsworth |
Merlyn Rice | 4,805,000 | 5 | |
| 91 | 10669/70 | Monday 20th June | Chris Fewtrell Cameron McAllister |
Tim Finn | 5,209,000 | 2 | |
| 92 | 10671/2 | Wednesday 22nd June | Ian Kershaw Damon Alexis-Rochefort |
Tim Finn | 5,010,000 | 5 | |
| 93 | 10673/4 | Friday 24th June | Julie Jones Debbie Oates |
Becky Wild | 5,105,000 | 4 | |
| 94 | 10675/6 | Monday 27th June | Alasdair Morrison Nessah Muthy |
Becky Wild | 4,962,000 | 4 | |
| 95 | 10677/8 | Wednesday 29th June | Mark Burt Susan Oudot |
Durno Johnston | 4,849,000 | 5 | |
| 96 | 10679/80 | Friday 1st July | Joe Turner | Durno Johnston | 4,967,000 | 3 | |
| 97 | 10681/2 | Monday 4th July | Carmel Morgan Mark Wadlow |
Judith Dine | 4,948,000 | 2 | |
| 98 | 10683/4 | Wednesday 6th July | David Proud David Isaac |
Judith Dine | 4,700,000 | 5 | |
| 99 | 10685/6 | Friday 8th July | Emily Gascoyne Steven Fay |
Judith Dine | 4,828,000 | 4 | |
| 100 | 10687/8 | Monday 11th July | Julie Jones Damon Alexis-Rochefort |
Lee Trevor | 4,964,000 | 3 | |
| 101 | 10689/90 | Wednesday 13th July | Nessah Muthy Ellen Taylor |
Lee Trevor | 4,750,000 | 5 | |
| 102 | 10691/2 | Friday 15th July | Debbie Oates Alasdair Morrison |
Ian Bevitt | 4,767,000 | 4 | |
| 103 | 10693/4 | Monday 18th July | Cameron McAllister Susan Oudot |
Ian Bevitt | 4,789,000 | 3 | |
| 104 | 10695/6 | Wednesday 20th July | John Kerr Simon Crowther |
Penelope Shales-Slyne | 4,860,000 | 2 | |
| 105 | 10697/8 | Friday 22nd July | David Isaac Chris Fewtrell |
Penelope Shales-Slyne | 4,646,000 | 8 | |
| 106 | 10699/700 | Monday 25th July | David Proud Jonathan Harvey |
Reece Dinsdale | 4,909,000 | 3 | |
| 107 | 10701/2 | Wednesday 27th July | Steven Fay Carmel Morgan |
Reece Dinsdale | 4,614,000 | 6 | |
| 108 | 10703/4 | Friday 29th July | Emily Gascoyne Ian Kershaw |
David Kester | 4,758,000 | 4 | |
| 109 | 10705/6 | Monday 1st August | Joe Turner Owen Lloyd-Fox |
David Kester | 5,201,000 | 1 | |
| 110 | 10707/8 | Wednesday 3rd August | Ella Greenhill Mark Wadlow |
Matt Hilton | 4,876,000 | 2 | |
| 111 | 10709/10 | Friday 5th August | Jan McVerry Sam Holdsworth |
Matt Hilton | 4,593,000 | 3 | |
| 112 | 10711/2 | Monday 8th August | John Kerr Jonathan Harvey |
Karl Neilson | 4,821,000 | 3 | |
| 113 | 10713/4 | Wednesday 10th August | Alasdair Morrison Simon Crowther |
Karl Neilson | 4,715,000 | 4 | |
| 114 | 10715/6 | Friday 12th August | Damon Alexis-Rochefort Jan McVerry |
Tim Finn | 4,636,000 | 5 | |
| 115 | 10717/8 | Monday 15th August | Steven Fay Carmel Morgan |
Tim Finn | 4,798,000 | 3 | |
| 116 | 10719/20 | Wednesday 17th August | Julie Jones | Vicky Thomas | 4,846,000 | 2 | |
| 117 | 10721/2 | Friday 19th August | David Isaac David Proud |
Vicky Thomas | 4,568,000 | 4 | |
| 118 | 10723/4 | Monday 22nd August | Susan Oudot Sam Holdsworth |
Durno Johnston | 4,920,000 | 3 | |
| 119 | 10725/6 | Wednesday 24th August | Nessah Muthy Emily Gascoyne |
Durno Johnston | 4,836,000 | 4 | |
| 120 | 10727/8 | Friday 26th August | Mark Wadlow Owen Lloyd-Fox |
Chantelle Kayll | 4,789,000 | 5 | |
| 121 | 10729/30 | Monday 29th August | Cameron McAllister Joe Turner |
Chantelle Kayll | 5,102,000 | 4 | |
| 122 | 10731/2 | Wednesday 31st August | Chris Fewtrell | Jason Wingard | 5,172,000 | 3 | |
| 123 | 10733/4 | Friday 2nd September | Debbie Oates | Jason Wingard | 5,036,000 | 6 | |
| 124 | 10735/6 | Monday 5th September | John Kerr Damon Alexis-Rochefort |
Brett Fallis | 4,993,000 | 7 | |
| 125 | 10737/8 | Wednesday 7th September | Joe Turner David Proud |
Brett Fallis | 5,052,000 | 6 | |
| 126 | 10739/40 | Monday 12th September | David Isaac Alasdair Morrison |
Penelope Shales-Slyne | 4,955,000 | 4 | |
| 127 | 10741/2 | Wednesday 14th September | Nessah Muthy Susan Oudot |
Penelope Shales-Slyne | 4,923,000 | 5 | |
| 128 | 10743/4 | Thursday 15th September | Cameron McAllister Ella Greenhill |
Emma Lindley | 4,279,000 | 13 | |
| 129 | 10745/6 | Sunday 18th September | Mark Wadlow Julie Jones |
Emma Lindley | 4,042,000 | 18 | |
| 130 | 10747/8 | Tuesday 20th September | Ian Kershaw | David Beauchamp | 4,894,000 | 13 | |
| 131 | 10749/50 | Wednesday 21st September | Owen Lloyd-Fox | David Beauchamp | 4,857,000 | 14 | |
| 132 | 10751/2 | Friday 23rd September | Ellen Taylor | David Beauchamp | 4,677,000 | 17 | |
| 133 | 10753/4 | Monday 26th September | Chris Fewtrell Simon Crowther |
Matt Hilton | 5,103,000 | 8 | |
| 134 | 10755/6 | Wednesday 28th September | Jan McVerry Jonathan Harvey |
Matt Hilton | 5,126,000 | 6 | |
| 135 | 10757/8 | Friday 30th September | Emily Gascoyne Steven Fay |
Ian Curtis | 5,014,000 | 9 | |
| 136 | 10759/60 | Monday 3rd October | Carmel Morgan Sam Holdsworth |
Ian Curtis | 5,043,000 | 7 | |
| 137 | 10761/2 | Tuesday 4th October | David Isaac Emily Gascoyne |
Tim Royle | 4,699,000 | 10 | |
| 138 | 10763/4 | Wednesday 5th October | John Kerr David Proud |
Tim Royle | 4,932,000 | 8 | |
| 139 | 10765/6 | Monday 10th October | Nessah Muthy Steven Fay |
Neil Alderton | 5,246,000 | 6 | |
| 140 | 10767/8 | Wednesday 12th October | Sam Holdsworth | Neil Alderton | 5,057,000 | 8 | |
| 141 | 10769/70 | Friday 14th October | Ellen Taylor Jonathan Harvey |
Neil Alderton | 4,943,000 | 10 | |
| 142 | 10771/2 | Monday 17th October | Julie Jones Owen Lloyd-Fox |
John Greening | 5,188,000 | 7 | |
| 143 | 10773/4 | Wednesday 19th October | Damon Alexis-Rochefort | John Greening | 5,250,000 | 6 | |
| 144 | 10775/6 | Friday 21st October | Simon Crowther Cameron McAllister |
Clive Arnold | 5,111,000 | 10 | |
| 145 | 10777/8 | Monday 24th October | Chris Fewtrell Susan Oudot |
Clive Arnold | 5,283,000 | 9 | |
| 146 | 10779/80 | Wednesday 26th October | Joe Turner Mark Wadlow |
Mickey Jones | 4,970,000 | 12 | |
| 147 | 10781/2 | Friday 28th October | Debbie Oates | Mickey Jones | 5,388,000 | 8 | |
| 148 | 10783/4 | Monday 31st October | Jan McVerry Alasdair Morrison |
George C. Siougas | 5,481,000 | 6 | |
| 149 | 10785/6 | Wednesday 2nd November | Ella Greenhill Carmel Morgan |
George C. Siougas | 5,231,000 | 8 | |
| 150 | 10787/8 | Friday 4th November | David Proud Ellen Taylor |
Tom Poole | 5,138,000 | 10 | |
| 151 | 10789/90 | Monday 7th November | Emily Gascoyne Damon Alexis-Rochefort |
Tom Poole | 5,490,000 | 12 | |
| 152 | 10791/2 | Wednesday 9th November | David Isaac Steven Fay |
Emma Lindley | 5,427,000 | 13 | |
| 153 | 10793/4 | Friday 11th November | Owen Lloyd-Fox John Kerr |
Emma Lindley | 5,405,000 | 14 | |
| 154 | 10795/6 | Monday 14th November | Jonathan Harvey | Brett Fallis | 5,419,000 | 15 | |
| 155 | 10797/8 | Wednesday 16th November | Ian Kershaw | Brett Fallis | 5,256,000 | 16 | |
| 156 | 10799/800 | Friday 18th November | Ella Greenhill | Brett Fallis | 5,087,000 | 18 | |
| 157 | 10801/2 | Wednesday 23rd November | Chris Fewtrell | David Beauchamp | 5,109,000 | 29 | |
| 158 | 10803/4 | Thursday 24th November | Mark Wadlow Joe Turner |
David Beauchamp | 5,016,000 | 32 | |
| 159 | 10805/6 | Sunday 27th November | Simon Crowther | Suri Krishnamma | 4,217,000 | 39 | |
| 160 | 10807/8 | Monday 28th November | Nessah Muthy Julie Jones |
Suri Krishnamma | 4,594,000 | 25 | |
| 161 | 10809/10 | Tuesday 29th November | Cameron McAllister Sam Holdsworth |
Chantelle Kayll | 3,984,000 | 31 | |
| 162 | 10811/2 | Wednesday 30th November | Susan Oudot | Chantelle Kayll | 4,639,000 | 23 | |
| 163 | 10813/4 | Wednesday 7th December | David Proud Steven Fay |
John Anderson Kevin Boyle |
5,119,000 | 14 | |
| 164 | 10815/6 | Thursday 8th December | Debbie Oates | John Anderson | 4,918,000 | 16 | |
| 165 | 10817/8 | Friday 9th December | Cameron McAllister Emily Gascoyne |
John Anderson | 4,302,000 | 28 | |
| 166 | 10819/20 | Monday 12th December | Ella Greenhill Ellen Taylor |
Gill Wilkinson | 4,767,000 | 14 | |
| 167 | 10821/2 | Wednesday 14th December | David Isaac | Gill Wilkinson | 4,498,000 | 19 | |
| 168 | 10823/4 | Friday 16th December | Jonathan Harvey Jan McVerry |
Neil Alderton | 4,893,000 | 11 | |
| 169 | 10825/6 | Monday 19th December | Owen Lloyd-Fox Julie Jones |
Neil Alderton | 4,980,000 | 12 | |
| 170 | 10827/8 | Wednesday 21st December | John Kerr | Peter Rose | 4,572,000 | 17 | |
| 171 | 10829/30 | Friday 23rd December | Alasdair Morrison | Peter Rose | 4,722,000 | 16 | |
| 172 | 10831/2 | Sunday 25th December | Chris Fewtrell | George C. Siougas | 4,565,000 | 18 | |
| 173 | 10833/4 | Monday 26th December | Mark Wadlow Nessah Muthy |
George C. Siougas | 4,675,000 | 15 | |
| 174 | 10835/6 | Wednesday 28th December | Susan Oudot Damon Alexis-Rochefort |
Jason Wingard | 4,902,000 | 12 | |
| 175 | 10837 | Thursday 29th December | Simon Crowther | Jason Wingard | 5,363,000 | 8 | |
| 176 | 10838 | Friday 30th December | Simon Crowther | Jason Wingard | 5,115,000 | 9 | |
| 177 | 10839 | Saturday 31st December | Damon Alexis-Rochefort | Mickey Jones | 4,718,000 | 13 |
Storylines
January
- Imran Habeeb meets up with Abi Webster again. She hasn’t had a test yet but refuses to abort the baby if she is pregnant. Once she’s taken the test, she informs him that it was a false alarm.
- Faye Windass drives herself and a still-tipsy Emma Brooker back from a New Year's Eve party and knocks down an old man, Ted Spear, when he steps out in front of them. They take him home where he assures them that he’s fine but when they return to check on him later, they find that he has died in his armchair. Having heard from Imran that Faye driving with Emma under the influence was illegal, they panic. They clean the flat of their fingerprints, but Faye has lost a nail down the sink and Emma is seen by a delivery driver. Their unease grows when Craig Tinker arranges for him and Faye to rent the spare room in the salon flat from Tyrone Dobbs, so they’ll all be living together. The police find Ted when Emma tips them off with an anonymous call. Tim Metcalfe also finds a crutch that Ted was using when he was knocked down in the back of his car. The girls claim it as part of a fancy dress costume they had at the party. Craig has to take time off sick when he sprains his ankle and, bored, sets himself the mental exercise of tracing the crutch’s owner. Ted’s post-mortem reveals he was run over and suffered a blood clot. The police investigate and get an e-fit from the delivery driver which Craig realises looks like Emma. Unable to bear the burden anymore, Faye confesses to him and begs him not to send her back to prison. Emma attends Ted’s funeral where she meets his grandson Jon but has to conceal her face from him when she catches her first sight of the e-fit. Craig retrieves the missing fingernail from Ted’s sink, though he also encounters Jon who thinks he is part of the investigating team. Guilt-ridden that he’s a “bent copper”, Craig resigns from the force. Faye wins her appeal for her conviction for assaulting Adam Barlow.
- Tim is referred to Dr Handley for a heart-check up after he admits to shortage of breath. An angiogram shows he needs a triple heart bypass. Unable to take in the news himself, he cannot bring himself to tell Sally Metcalfe what has happened and relies on Aggie Bailey for nursing advice, thanking her with flowers. Sally grows suspicious about his behaviour when he avoids sex with her and hears he bought flowers for someone. She’s temporarily distracted when Sophie Webster rings with news that she’s injured her wrist in a moped accident while travelling. On Peter Barlow’s advice, Tim makes things easier for Sally's future if he dies by sorting out his own funeral with George Shuttleworth and making a will with Adam. Convinced he's having an affair she sets a tracker app on his phone and eventually finds him with Aggie just as he’s suffering an acute angina attack. Finding out that numerous people except her knew about his condition, she questions if they have a future together. The operation goes well, and the couple are reconciled. Tim celebrates his 50th birthday in hospital. To Sally’s chagrin, Elaine Jones moves in with them to help her son convalesce and the two women have problems keeping their jealousy from getting Tim stressed. He enjoys being fussed over.
- Adam rows with Lydia Chambers, accusing her of exaggerating their past relationship and creating a breach between him and Sarah Barlow. She thaws towards her husband when he tells her that he only cares for her and Harry Platt, but when his car is keyed, he reports her to the police. They find the true culprit was Jeremy Bremner, the loser in a civil case that Adam was handling, but by that time Lydia has got drunk before an important work meeting and been sacked. To appease an angry Sarah, he gets Carla Barlow to take her on at Underworld. His office frontage is vandalised, and he assumes it's the case loser again.
- Sam Blakeman takes an interest when Roy Cropper and Mary Taylor play chess. Roy offers to teach him, but the boy is humiliated when he’s easily beaten and retreats into his shell again. Mary teaches him some winning moves and Nick Tilsley is delighted when his son talks to him when they play a game. The boy still can't cope with losing to Roy as they continue to play.
- Ed Bailey refurbishes Speed Daal. Marrium Nazir helps Zeedan Nazir prepare for the reopening, and they rekindle their love for one another, making Alya Nazir deeply uneasy. Yasmeen Metcalfe offers Stu Carpenter a chef's job and changes her mind again about him lodging at No.6. In clearing out a room for him, she finds Hashim Elamin’s money and demands the full truth from her grandchildren. Horrified by their actions, she orders them out of her life and changes the locks on the house. Marrium wants to know why their grandmother has disowned them and gets angry when Zeedan re-exhibits his past behaviour of being evasive with her. To protect himself and his family, he calls it a day with her, and she leaves for London. Yasmeen bans Zeedan from the restaurant and only has Alya there on sufferance.
- Chesney Brown and Gemma Winter continue to struggle for money and Joseph Brown is bullied at school for the poor state of his uniform. Fiz Stape finds out but Joseph gets his father to promise not to say anything to the school. He almost immediately he reneges on the agreement and tells the teacher. Feeling betrayed, Joseph runs away from home in a plan formulated by Hope Stape to teach the grown-ups a lesson, hiding him in No.9’s loft. A police search ensues and a reward for him being returned is offered which is massively boosted when Yasmeen anonymously donates all of Hashim’s dirty money to it. Having vacated the loft and walking the streets with Hope, they are seen by Clint Stubbins who sees an opportunity to claim the reward by “returning” Joseph, though Hope demands a £100 cut in cash for both of them. Bernie Winter finds the boy with large amount of money and also about Clint’s deception. She’s talked out of reporting the wily man when he gives her half the cash to help Chesney and Gemma with their bills. Bernie and Dev Alahan get closer when she discovers he gave £3,000 to the appeal fund and they announce they are a couple. Fiz finds the items in the loft and asks Hope who lies, saying Bernie organised Joseph’s absconsion. As Bernie has had extra cash in her hand, the police are called and arrest her. A disgusted Dev finishes with her. Upset that Bernie’s being blamed, Joseph tells the truth about it all being Hope’s idea. Clint disappears. Fiz fears for her daughter while Evelyn Plummer and Phill Whittaker think she needs proper help for her narcissistic behaviour.
The younger generation take a stance for justice and decency.
- Summer Spellman gets a conditional offer from Oxford University. Behind everyone’s back, she ignores her dietary advice and feasts on sugar-based foods. On an assessment visit to Weatherfield General, she and Amy Barlow bump into an injured Jacob Hay who says he was beaten up for leaving the drugs gang. Summer is devastated when an up-skirting photo of her appears on social media spread by schoolfriends. Discovering that the school did nothing about similar offences, Amy spray paints a protest on the school wall, earning her a suspension. The girls organise a lesson boycott. Daniel Osbourne admires their stance and alerts the Weatherfield Gazette. Deputy head Orla Crawshaw hastily announces consent workshops to avoid adverse publicity and reinstates Amy.
- Jenny Connor makes Brian Packham and Cathy Matthews employ Shona Platt as Rita Tanner’s assistant while they holiday in Cornwall. Her direct manner makes her see off a delivery driver who’s been boring Rita for years with his endless chatter.
- Maria Connor’s campaign leaflets opposes the housing development and in a row with Sally she accuses her taking back-handers. Someone leaks a photo of Sally weeing in Victoria Gardens to the Gazette. She is arrested for the act while Tim is having his operation and loses endorsements for her campaign. She accuses Maria of dirty tricks and has to backtrack when she finds out that Len Cameron was the culprit. She drops her campaign to concentrate on Tim.
- Jenny’s concerns about the age gap between her and Leo Thompkins intensify when she sees his delight that housemates of his are expecting a baby. Carla accuses her of neglecting the Connor family so soon after Johnny Connor’s death and they fall out momentarily until Carla apologises. Jenny is thrown when she finds out that his father, Teddy, was an old school friend of hers who fancied her. Changing her stance entirely, Carla tells her to grab life while she can, and Jenny invites a house-hunting Leo to move in permanently. When he’s made redundant, she allows him a rental holiday, annoying a jealous Daisy Midgeley. Leo gets a loan from Teddy for his rent.
- Amy blurts out to Lydia about Daniel’s recent school suspension and he has to confess about his recent troubles with Summer. Lydia has concerns about him, but Daisy tells her she’s got a good man, making Lydia think the two still have a thing for each other. David Platt forces Max Turner to attend his consent workshop when he proves reluctant. Daniel makes an ill-informed comment that David did so because of his own personal history and a puzzled Max gets David to tell him how Josh Tucker raped him. David is livid with Daniel for not allowing the story to come out under his own terms.
- Nina Lucas can’t cope with Asha Alahan not being in her line of sight. Asha considers studying at Glasgow University but can’t bring herself to tell Nina.
February
- Enraged at what he's made his dad suffer, Max breaks into Daniel's flat and trashes it. He's caught in the act and falls down the stairs when pushed by Daniel. Suffering concussion, he has a short spell in hospital. Daniel lies about what happened and the police take no action. Daisy worries for Daniel and when she calls on him, they kiss. Daniel realises he still has feelings for her and finishes with Lydia. He is offered a permanent place at the school. He confesses to Daisy that he did push Max. David and Shona are outraged that Daniel has got away with assault. Daniel speaks up for Max when his video production is disqualified from the school's audio-visual club. The governors agree not to expel Max from school. Daniel apologises to Max to try and clear the air. Daniel and Daisy restart their relationship.
- Kelly produces an interactive online portfolio of Maria’s work when her paper copies are ruined by an accident when playing with Liam Connor. She then misunderstands an overheard conversation between Gary Windass and Maria about Sally and leaves the flat, thinking they’re tired of her. They persuade her to return. Happy with her new life, Kelly is perturbed when Laura Neelan reappears on the scene with the news that she has terminal stomach cancer and wants to make amends for her past neglect. Seeing that her mother really is ill, Kelly takes on the job of looking after her, skipping school to do so and lying to Gary and Maria concerning her movements.
- Shona tries to restore the friendship between Audrey Roberts and Rita but fails when Audrey, drinking too much in the daytime, sees through her efforts and bridles at being set up.
- Craig gets a packing job at Underworld but views it as a huge comedown. He hates his first day at the factory, making Faye feel guilty.
- Gemma convinces Dev of her mother's innocence but his attempts to apologise to her are rebuffed. The reward money is all returned and given to a homeless charity.
- Nina finds out about Glasgow and grows over-anxious that something bad will happen to Nina when she visits the city. She tries to lock her in the cafe to prevent her leaving. Roy persuades his niece to seek help for her anxiety. She sees a doctor and is put on a waiting list for counselling with support from Roy and Asha.
Lydia sets up her first love.
- Adam disappoints Sarah with the gift of a slow cooker on her birthday and is late for a celebratory meal. He finds his car windscreen smashed and suspects Bremner but is told by him that he had nothing to do with it. The true culprit is Lydia who sends armed police officers on a raid on the solicitor's office after a false tip-off that guns are on the premises, leading to the firm losing a lucrative contract with a new client. Adam also receives anonymous phone calls from her and a bouquet of flowers with a threat written on the card is placed in his flat. The locks are changed, and Bremner is arrested. With no one suspecting her, Lydia begins to leave poor online reviews of the solicitors as well as leaving a trail of false evidence that the two are having an affair, including their supposedly having spent a night together at the Chariot Square Hotel while Adam was there with a client. In addition, she tells Sarah she’s having a difficult affair with a married man but doesn’t name him. Sarah falls for the clues she has left and forces an “admission” from Lydia that Adam is the man in question. Sarah throws her husband out. Lydia tells him it’s in revenge for the way he treated her when they were at university. No one believes in Adam's innocence.
- Amy celebrates her 18th birthday with a special meal, a £40,000 inheritance from Deirdre Barlow and a new mystery boyfriend - a supposedly reformed Jacob Hay. Knowing that no one will be pleased by their relationship, she tries to keep it a secret, but Jacob is arrested for breaking and entering when Steve McDonald sees him in No.1 when returning home with Tracy McDonald. Amy quietly gives him an alibi to get him released. Asha and Summer realise who her new mystery man is. The school holds a Valentine’s Day dance which Max videos. He takes the opportunity to spike Daniel's drink with GHB but Amy drinks it by mistake and collapses at a club that Jacob takes her and her friends to after the dance. Jacob takes care of her, and she is taken to hospital. Seeing him there, and finding out about their relationship, Steve is convinced that he was the one who drugged his daughter. The club's CCTV shows that she wasn't drugged on their premises, but Jacob is nevertheless arrested for using fake ID's to get the youngsters into the establishment. Leanne Battersby and Simon Barlow are horrified that Amy is going out with Jacob. Amy calls off her relationship with him as they face too much opposition from her friends and family. David sees the video that Max shot which shows that he was the one who spiked the drink. Threatening him with the police, he tells him in no uncertain terms to call off his vendetta against Daniel. In the meantime, the teacher works out that Max was the culprit and confronts him, though forgiving him provided he and David never tell the Barlows that he knew who was really to blame. Amy changes her mind and continues to secretly see Jacob.
- Still struggling financially, the Winter-Browns are taken aback when Linda Hancock makes an unannounced visit to see Joseph. They attempt to hide the extent of their troubles from her, but she finds out the truth about her grandson’s disappearance from Dev when he and Bernie bicker in the Rovers. Chesney to too proud to accept her offer of financial help. She decides to stay a while to make sure Joseph is okay and ends up suggesting that he comes back to live with her in Portugal. Chesney and Bernie are furious at the suggestion and provoke Linda into making the offer directly to Joseph. Although arguments ensue between the adults, Chesney lets Joseph make the decision and the boy agrees to leave, thinking that’s what his dad wants. When Hope puts him right, Chesney races to the airport and makes him realise he still wants him to live with them all.
- The hearing to allow Abi to adopt Jack Webster is adjourned to a later date. Imran and Toyah are offered the opportunity to formally adopt Elsie. Toyah agrees, provided that they get married. Abi is upset by the sight of them celebrating their engagement and Sally incorrectly thinks her reaction must be due to Kevin having had an affair. Abi confesses to Sally about her fling with Imran but begs her to keep it to herself. Kevin overhears the two women talking about it and flees with Jack on a planned break to Bridlington, unable to give Abi another chance. Imran worries what she's revealed, and an unsuspecting Toyah also has concerns for Abi's state of mind, being told that drugs were involved when she approaches Abi to find out what’s happened. Kevin refuses to return until Abi's moved out of No.13.
- Annoyed at Elaine's continuing presence, Sally sets her and Tim up on a movie night to watch Terms of Endearment, but her prank fails when Tim enjoys watching the film with his mother. Much to Sally’s chagrin, the two spend Valentine’s Day on an 80's movie marathon. Elaine prevents Sally having sex with Tim as the doctors have forbidden it while he recuperates. Elaine begins a cardiology course. Sally finds out that Gina Seddon is struggling with her bipolar disorder and goes to stay with her.
- When Yasmeen gives him a pay rise, Stu insists on paying rent. He's hurt when Tracy insults him and gets his revenge by substituting a present of expensive wines from Ken Barlow for bottles of cheap plonk. When she finds out, Yasmeen’s disappointment at his actions makes Stu feel guilty and he confesses to Steve. As they were given a replacement batch, Steve forgives him and invites him to join a tasting where they all get outrageously drunk. Tim assures Yasmeen that Stu's prank was nothing like Geoff Metcalfe's underhand actions.
- Jon follows Emma back to the street when he sees her watching him at work at Freshco. She realises he's just as smitten with her. Craig and Faye are horrified to see them together and pressure Emma not to see him again.
- Returning from holiday, Brian and Cathy reveal they’re planning to buy a sweet shop in Cornwall. Cathy has doubts and Brian agrees to stay in Weatherfield as it's more important that they be together.
March
- Linda returns to Portugal.
- Adam asks Sarah for a fair hearing and to question Lydia on the specifics of their supposed affair, but she is ahead of the game and provides further evidence involving texts which convinces Sarah. Adam goes to remonstrate with Lydia, but she trashes her own flat and calls the police who arrest him for the damage. He’s reported to the solicitor’s authority and has to suspend his work activities. Going off the rails, Daniel has to prevent him from drinking heavily and chasing other women. As he faces a court case for threatening behaviour and criminal damage, Carla voices her doubts about his guilt to Sarah. She finds Lydia has moved herself and Finn out of the area. Adam tricks Lydia into meeting him at a shopping centre where he’s ashamed to hear how badly his callous behaviour affected her when they were young and she fell pregnant by him. A tussle between the two ends up with him falling off a balcony. He undergoes an operation to stop bleeding on the brain but his feelings of guilt lead him into giving a statement exonerating Lydia. Ashamed of her actions, she confesses to Sarah that her claims of an affair were false and claims that the child she was expecting was aborted. Adam and Sarah are reconciled, and he seeks to make amends by apologising to the women he’s hurt in the past, but his initiative is knocked back by one of them, Naomi, who blags an expensive free meal out of him in recompense.
- Emma continues to see Jon in secret. He tells her that he’s moving to Australia and wants to spend his last few weeks with her, but worries that she doesn’t want to see him when she keeps him away from the street. Craig hates working under Kirk Sutherland at Underworld and begins to resent Faye for losing him his job. They are reconciled when she discovers that she is pregnant. He’s further delighted when he manages to get his job back with the police. He and Faye begin to suspect she’s still seeing Jon. He and Emma spend the night together at the Chariot Square Hotel.
- Seeing Abi swigging back vodka, Toyah urges her to go to her support group. She returns with Dean Turnbull who she says is her sponsor but is in fact her drug supplier. The two have a drink and drug fuelled session at No.13 which Kevin walks in on. Dean steals a customer’s car from the garage and Abi tries to stop him from driving off by getting in the passenger seat. She starts to undergo unexpected labour pains in the vehicle and Dean abandons her in the countryside. Getting a passing driver to take her to hospital, she gives birth to a three-month premature boy and then flees from there. Aggie recognises her from CCTV images and reports her to social services. In the meantime, Abi retrieves the stolen car from Dean but injures herself in the process. Back at the hospital she rejects the baby when social services say she needs to name the father to help her chances with their assessment for her to keep him, but she starts to bond with the child when he develops a serious bowel condition which requires an operation and decides to name him Alfie Franklin. Toyah supports her but keeps the news from Imran. Abi resolves to fight to keep the child. An emotional Imran finds out he’s the father and promises to help her. She is moved to tears when Kevin also supports her and arranges maternity pay. She lies to him that Tez Wyatt is the father. She has to leave No.13 when Jack rejects her for cheating on his father and moves into a flat near the precinct. She loses the initial custody hearing. Toyah persuades Imran to step back from the case to concentrate on Elsie’s adoption. He agrees to have his name on the birth certificate to help Abi with her next hearing and employs Elliot Newell to fight her case.
- Having read up on chess strategies, Sam is disappointed when Roy beats him again. Seeing his son’s disappointment, Nick gets Roy to arrange a game between Sam and Brian which Sam wins. The boy begins to fall behind on his schoolwork as he concentrates on the game too much, so Nick reluctantly has to ban him from playing. Hearing that Sam has a real skill, Leanne arranges for Roy’s tuition to continue behind Nick’s back.
- Kelly confides in Simon what she is doing for her mum and that she is worn out juggling her responsibilities. In order to focus on her campaign, Maria asks Kelly to do more shifts at the barbers. When she’s forced to stay overnight to help her mum, Simon confesses what he knows to Gary and Maria as he thinks she’s taken too much on. Seeing Laura’s obvious illness, Gary and Maria change their mind about her condition and invite her to move into their flat. Wanting Kelly to be financially provided for, Laura decides to track down Rick Neelan, much to her hosts’ consternation. Gary tries to set up Lenny Isaacs to do the job, giving him orders to deliberately fail at the task, but Laura rejects his services and employs ex-policeman Ron Fordham instead. Gary is concerned when it becomes apparent to Laura and Ron that he was the last person who claims he saw Rick alive. Kelly doesn’t want her father back in her life and Gary tries to use this to persuade Laura to drop to matter but to no avail. Laura drinks on top of her medication, causing her to row with Kelly. Gary calms the situation down and Laura sees that he’s a better parent to her than she or Rick ever were. Ron reports that Rick totally disappeared off the face of the earth after June 2019 and his former colleagues in the police think Gary killed him. Under pressure, Gary admits to Laura about murdering him to protect Sarah and her family. Needing Rick to be declared dead in order that Kelly can inherit, Laura herself confesses to the murder. The police don’t believe her but, using information supplied by Gary, she is able to tell them where the body is buried and she is charged, just before she takes a turn for the worse and is admitted to hospital. Kelly is devastated. Sarah finds out what has happened and the reason behind Laura’s confession.
- Daisy is jealous when Nicky Wheatley returns to the area, searching for a teaching job having got herself through college on the money Daniel gave her. He assures Daisy she has no reason to be concerned and tries to get Nicky taken on as a trainee at Weatherfield High, but she fails the interview.
- Michael Bailey begins to resent his parents’ constant interference in Glory ’s upbringing. With the child due to celebrate her first birthday, he searches for Grace, keen to involve her in the celebrations. She turns up, but only to blackmail Ed and Aggie for £10,000 more. After agonising, they call her bluff and tell Michael the truth. Confronted, Grace leaves for good. The Baileys go ahead with the party, delighting Michael.
An uncomfortable meeting.
- Tired of having to keep their relationship secret, Amy arranges a lunch with her astonished parents to meet Jacob where she hopes they will see the gentler side of him. Coming up against outright opposition from all the family, she leaves No.1 and moves in with Jacob. Steve sabotages her attempts to get an advance on her trust money from Ken, and a job offer from Dev at Prima Doner. Tracy tries a different tactic, giving her lots of shifts at Preston's Petals so they can keep an eye on her.
- Phill finds incriminating evidence that Maria’s electoral opponent, Bernard Barnes, suppressed a report about the dangers of local air pollution increasing as a result of the new bypass. She leaks it to the press and is successfully elected as a counsellor. The bypass is cancelled but Phill loses his council job because of his actions. Kirk is also sacked as Buzzer the Bee as County are likewise forced to change their plans for a new training ground in the same area.
- Sally returns from Newcastle just as Tim’s recuperation period ends and he and Sally can enjoy sex again, but their efforts are thwarted by Elaine’s constant presence. Tim tries to convince her to leave but she misinterprets his words and thinks he’s offering to decorate her room at No.4.
- With no interest being shown in No.9 due to the sinkhole, Fiz tries to get Tyrone to agree to lowering the asking price.
- Todd Grimshaw and Billy Mayhew worry that Summer is concentrating too much on her studies to the detriment of her health. They try and get her to socialise more.
April
- Kevin catches sight of the birth certificate and informs Toyah. She confronts Imran during a meeting with social services about adopting Elsie. The two separate and Elsie is taken away from Toyah, even after she tries to adopt her on her own. Imran is denied the chance to say goodbye to the child. Toyah makes a drunken pass at Adam, but he and Imran accept it's just the act of a wounded woman.
- Nick discovers that Sam is still playing chess. Roy makes Nick see that he is being over-protective, and he arranges for his son to take part in a children’s chess tournament. Sam reaches the final, though he is beaten by a seemingly arrogant girl named Jalena. Sam retreats into himself once more but comes out of his shell when Jalena's father admits his daughter hasn’t any friends, and he agrees to be pals with his fellow player. Nick worries that Roy is doing a better job at helping his son than he is. Sam gets shy when he plays chess with Jalena the first time and loses badly. Nick has to boost his confidence and the youngsters’ friendship grows.
- Jon suggests to Emma that she moves to Australia with him. Despite Emma’s best efforts to keep them apart, Jon recognises Craig as one of the officers investigating his grandfather’s death. A scared Emma tries to break up with him, but Jon demands the truth about all of their involvements with Ted. Once he has had time to digest the full story, he is happy that Ted died peacefully after an enjoyable morning with the girls. He forgives them, and he and Emma resume their plans to move to Australia. Steve sternly objects to losing his daughter, but eventually gives his blessing. They leave for London to prepare for their trip. After a few weeks, they emigrate.
- Billy persuades Summer to have a night out with her friends where she drinks too much for her insulin levels. Everyone worries that she’s not taking her diabetes seriously and that she’s burning herself out with studying. At Billy’s request, Amy studies with Summer to keep her on a more even keel, but she catches her friend making herself sick after eating food. Summer elicits a promise from Amy to keep quiet about the matter. She breaks that promise after Summer is hospitalised with a diabetic attack, caused by further unwise eating habits. Billy resolves to get her professional help but she is angry when Todd begins to try and control her activities. She joins a diabetes support group where she meets and likes Aaron Sandford, a fellow sufferer.
- Having heard Phill talking about going back to his old, hated job, Tyrone has an attack of conscience and lowers No.9's asking price. Despite being grateful, Phill keeps the price as it is by deciding to do the renovations himself on their new house. An unhappy Tyrone helps Fiz and the girls move out, and he moves back into No.9 himself. Hearing how sad he feels from Kevin, Fiz makes a permanent arrangement for Tyrone to see the girls on a regular basis.
- Adam's suspension is revoked. He has to work extra hours, but the business continues to suffer due to Lydia's negative reviews.
- Craig restarts with the police. The families are delighted at the news of her pregnancy, but she suffers stomach pains. A scan shows that she isn't pregnant, despite the fact that her periods have stopped. She is sent for tests. In the meantime, she and Craig are at cross-purposes as to whether they both want to start a family now which is only resolved when Beth Sutherland interferes, and they discover that they both want to wait a few years. Nevertheless, Craig tells his mother to butt out in future.
- Jacob and Amy struggle to pay their bills. Jacob sells an excess stock of alcopops from the corner shop to make extra money but Simon's suspicious that he’s peddling drugs again. Amy gets Carla to take Jacob on for a trial period at the factory where initially the staff cold-shoulder his efforts to integrate himself after Simon tells them what he did to him and Leanne. He starts to try to win them over.
- Appalled at what she thinks her mother did, Kelly refuses to see Laura, despite Gary’s pleas. She puts on a front that she doesn’t care. Gary and Maria who comfort Laura in her final hours. At almost the last minute, Kelly changes her mind but arrives at the hospital just after her Laura has died. She inherits £380,000 from her father, once she’s 18, but finds the deaths of both of her parents hard to cope with and is tempted to take her mother’s morphine. Abi stops her and confiscates the drug. Separate funerals are held. Her father’s is interrupted by one of his victims spitting on his coffin. At a low ebb, Abi considers using the drug herself. Carrying out repairs to Rick's house with a view to selling it, Gary finds £17,000 in cash under the floorboards which he hands over to Kelly.
- Imran resolves to win Toyah back. Hearing that Abi took the morphine from Kelly, he calls on her and finds the empty bottle. She claims she emptied the contents down the sink, but thinking she might be back on drugs, he decides to apply for sole custody of his son. After Abi rejects a proposal to move in with him, he dangles the prospect in front of Toyah of a happy family unit if he gets Alfie and she agrees to take him back, eliciting a promise from him never to let her down again. Toyah announces their plans to get married and their application for custody of the baby is deemed a formality. Abi vows to fight Imran and he employs the services of crooked paralegal Ben Chancellor, to find proof of her being back on drugs. Toyah supports Imran when she overhears Abi discussing ways of undermining their case with Elliot. Ben finds no evidence whatsoever of Abi reusing drugs. Leanne has doubts about her sister and Imran getting married, but Toyah makes it clear that any discussion is off-limits. The two make up on Toyah's hen night. Elliot has to drop Abi's case when the money that Imran supplied runs out.
- Nicky gets the TA job at the school after the successful candidate pulls out. An unhappy Daisy starts to suspect that Nicky is hiding something. Daniel and Nicky organise a school trip to Edinburgh when Mrs Crawshaw pulls out due to personal issues after her husband leaves her. The deputy head embarrasses herself when she makes a pass a Daniel but also makes the mistake of thinking that Nicky is his girlfriend. Nicky assures Daisy that she isn't a homewrecker, but she remains suspicious, especially when she discovers that Mrs Crawshaw thought Daniel and Nicky were an item. Trying to find Nicky a boyfriend of her own, Daisy engineers a meeting between her and Ashley Hardcastle. She is shocked when Ashley recognises Nicky as a sex worker whose services he once used. Beth and Kirk also recognise Nicky and mistakenly tell Daisy that Daniel was once a client of hers. Max overhears them arguing and as a result finds Nicky’s old advert online. He passes the pictures round the school, and she is fired. Daniel finishes with Daisy, accusing her of being behind the leak. He offers Nicky and her daughter Maisie a place in his flat when she faces eviction. The press gets hold of the story and Nicky's family find out about her past. Daniel discovers that Max was the culprit behind the leak. Tired of his activities, he threatens to expose him to Amy for spiking her drink. Seeing how much Amy is still affected by the incident, Max confesses himself, but the Barlows are angry with Daniel for keeping the information to himself with all but Ken Barlow ostracizing him. The police arrest Max after Amy reports him. David confiscates his phone and locks it in the barbers. Trying to retrieve it, Max tears open an artery in his leg on the broken window. A passing Jacob saves his life. Simon is impressed by his actions and the two start to bond when Jacob tells him how Harvey Gaskell also ensnared him.
- Sarah incentivises the factory’s sales team with a bonus for incremental business, but to everyone’s surprise Kirk wins it when he answers their phone at lunch and impresses the eccentric Des Henderson of large retailer Geronimo Threads. After winning a large order, Beth pushes Carla to promote Kirk to the made-up position of “Extra Office Administrator”. He is given a trial period.
- George makes excuses not to stay overnight with Eileen Grimshaw. The undertakers deal with a deceased man who turned out to be a bigamist and Sean Tully, overhearing and totally misunderstanding a discussion between George and Todd on the matter, reports to Eileen that George has two women on the go. Once the confusion is sorted, Eileen investigates George's reasons for avoiding sleeping with her. They find out he suffers from a terrible snoring problem which has caused many personal problems in his past. Staying the night with Eileen, George pretends that diaphragm exercises are doing the trick, but he is deliberately keeping himself awake with energy drinks.
- Sally returns from another visit to Gina and finds Elaine even more firmly in charge of her house. She orders Tim to get her to leave but he chickens out of any confrontation. Sally does the job herself and Elaine walks out in umbrage. Tim suffers erectile disfunction when he and Sally try to have sex. He refuses to see a doctor.
- Aggie is moved to the gastroenterology ward at the hospital where she has a new demanding boss, Henry Thorne.
- Alya is pleased when her gran supports her efforts to give the homeless free food to mark Eid. Zeedan also helps out with the plans.
May
- Max recovers after surgery. He is expelled from Weatherfield High. He appears in court where he is given a year's referral order. With no standard schools available to him, he is put into a pupil referral unit which he enjoys and starts to prosper.
- Yasmeen rejects Zeedan’s help when she finds he’s offering to assist with the Eid stall. Stu realises he forgot to order the food and, with a reluctant Ken in tow, tries to break into the wholesalers to obtain some. Stu is arrested on the spot and Yasmeen corroborates his story to the police when they call her. Outside of her hearing, the police release Stu with a warning that he is lucky considering his recent prison record. Due to him showing blatant dishonesty with the break-in, Yasmeen throws Stu out of No.6, but Alya persuades her to relent. Alya is also invited to move back in. Seeing how Stu is totally estranged from his own daughter, Yasmeen reconciles with Zeedan.
The end of the line for the Habeebs.
- Unable to find anything on Abi, Ben even follows him to her support group. Kevin exposes him. Enraged, Abi kidnaps Toyah on her wedding day to get time to talk to her about the sort of man she’s marrying. They supposedly settle their differences, but Toyah is now convinced it is the right thing to do to take the baby off a loose cannon like her. Toyah and Imran are married. Hearing that Imran thinks Abi’s back on drugs due to the morphine that she took from her, Kelly speaks up for her, but the lawyer dismisses her pleas. As a result, Kelly anonymously pays for Elliot to take up Abi’s case again. Ben sees Dean Turnbull borrowing money from Abi, and with Imran’s agreement, perjures himself in court, saying he saw a drugs exchange. Imran and Toyah are granted custody. Abi vows to get him back. Alfie is brought back to the Habeeb’s flat. Imran tells Kelly not to pass on to Toyah Abi’s claim that Ben set her up. Imran is blackmailed by a hard-up Ben to keep quiet, but Abi sees Ben buying drugs himself and, filming the exchange, forces him to confess to perjury. She is circumvented by Imran who gives Ben a permanent position at the lawyers to buy his silence. Leanne suggests that Imran and Toyah organise a naming day for the baby and involve Abi. To everyone’s surprise, she turns up, but it is only to take photos of the baby for the purpose of ordering forged passports and visas to flee to Costa Rica with Alfie. In the meantime, she puts on a front of accepting the situation to lull Toyah and Imran into a false sense of security. The Habeebs are given the opportunity to adopt Elsie. Kevin admits to Abi that he’s never stopped loving her and asks her to move back in, forcing her to tell him what she’s planning. Realising how being separation from her son is tearing her apart, he supports her plan. Kelly makes Imran guilty for his actions and when he calls on her to apologise, he spots the passports. Thwarted, Abi feels like she has nothing to live for. Alarmed at what his actions may have led to, Imran confesses his perjury to Elliot in a phone call, and prevents Toyah from telling the police about what Abi was planning, also confessing his sins to her when they are driving back from the police station. Devastated that they might lose both Elsie and Alfie as a result, Toyah crashes the car into some building scaffolding.
- Faye is told that she's started her menopause early and can never again have children. Craig assures her that it doesn’t alter his love for her, especially after Beth undiplomatically asks if he’s going to dump her. She is given HRT treatment.
- Simon persuades Steve to give Jacob a second chance. He invites him to a family meal and begins to see the lad in a different light. Amy and Jacob’s boiler breaks down in the flat they are subletting from his sister and the electricity is cut off. When the council evicts them, Amy agrees to move back into No.1 provided Jacob is taken in as well. He gets a mate to fix No.1’s roof when Steve suspects Ed of over-estimating the cost, and then finds out that the friend has no formal building training but was someone Jacob met in youth offenders.
- Peter is told by Dr Thorne that his transplant was a success, but Aggie overhears him on the phone boasting to a colleague that he rushed the operation to win a bet. Angered by his overbearing attitude, and appalled by his ethics, she reports him to the hospital authorities. Peter is furious when he finds out, especially when he is shown a selfie which has just come to the hospital's attention of Thorne holding his liver during the operation with a humorous caption. Peter’s liver condition is checked and found to be fine, but he nevertheless makes a formal complaint. Finding out about the surgeon’s privileged life, his temper goes over the edge, and he assaults Thorne when he’s dining with a friend. He is charged with assault. Carla is shocked when Thorne agrees to drop the charges if she has a relationship with him. The doctor then proposes that both sides drop their respective cases if he retires from the NHS. Peter agrees but then finds out that Thorne is moving to a lucrative new position in Philadelphia, and he’s been conned. The Gazette refuses to run Peter’s story as the editor is Thorne’s friend. Nurse Tricia Womak gives Peter details to help with his complaint to the GMC.
- Kirk annoys the staff during his trial period by introducing such innovations as an airhorn for when a sale is made. Sarah puts him onto answering the phone which he finds difficult, despite Jacob’s help, and he is relieved to be returned to packing.
- Deprived of sleep, George starts to make simple mistakes at work which Todd has to rectify. Eileen insists he just gets some normal sleep, but all the residents of No.11 are disturbed as he snores loudly all night long. He is diagnosed with sleep apnea but a CPAP machine reduces the problem.
- Aadi gets his hopes up that he and Summer can be reconciled but she tells him she’s now involved with someone else. Aaron is scared away when she tells him that she has bulimia. His rejection makes her condition even worse. Aaron ignores her frantic texts, while Summer ignores the support that Aadi tries to give her. Todd suspects that Summer is not taking her medication. She makes a basic error in her English A-level exam and stresses that she’s blown her chance of getting into Oxford. She then has a dizzy spell during her maths exam when she fails to take her insulin, but is cheered up when Aaron returns, apologises for running from her as he also has an eating disorder. They agree to start over again.
- When Fiz misses her bus, Tyrone gives her a lift to her new home where he is saddened to see her large garden and the domestic bliss she enjoys. She is taken aback when she has dinner with Phill and two of his friends, one of whom recognises her as being involved in the John Stape case. Phill assures her he’s always known about her past, and it makes no difference to their relationship. Hope plays on Phill’s computer and finds a file on documents he has been collecting on her father, revealing to her for the first time his crimes. She wrecks Phill’s car with a digger that’s being used for alterations on the house. Fiz is astonished by the file which Phill explains is research for a book he was writing, hoping that she would find it cathartic to tell her side of the story. Fiz finishes with him, and she and the girls move back into No.9. Retrieving Fiz’s things, Tyrone and Phill fight but Tyrone is taken aback to find out that Phill had a ring ready to give Fiz as a proposal. He encourages Fiz to listen and she accepts the proposal. Tyrone agrees to Hope taking Phill’s surname when her mother marries.
- Tim avoids going to the doctors to discuss his impotence but lies to Sally, saying that all is fine. He panics when he wins a romantic night for two in a hotel and buys unprescribed Viagra-type tablets off the internet. Panicking when the postman is delayed, he eventually receives them, but they cause a heart reaction, and he is hospitalised. The incident causes a breach between them, especially when Sally confides in Gail about their problem and Tim thinks he’s the subject of idle gossip with various neighbours. Tim hears from Faye how upset Sally is and he goes to see Dr Gaddas, taking Sally with him. She alters his medication, suggesting that could be the source of the problem.
- Mrs Crawshaw pushes Daniel to apply for a permanent teaching post. Finding out about it, Tracy plans to report him to the deputy head for concealing Max’s crime, and tries to get David on her side, but Amy stops her when she finds out that Nicky pleaded with her mother not to push him away, though she tells her grateful uncle that she did it for the family’s sake and not his. Daniel decides he’s not cut out for teaching and deliberately fails the interview. Nicky suggests they could have a future together, but he makes it clear that he’s not interested in romance. Nicky realises she’s in the way of a reconciliation between Daniel and Daisy and leaves the area. The two subsequently get back together.
- Sean begins a relationship with Frank Bardsley when he helps him get rid of an unwanted nerdy internet date who he’s meeting in the Rovers.
June
- Imran pulls an unconscious Toyah free of the car. As she is put in an ambulance, he collapses and dies of a cardiac arrest. Abi is delighted when Elliot tells her of Imrans’s confession, but she and Kevin are arrested on suspicion of tampering with the car’s brakes and planning to kidnap Alfie following an allegation by Leanne. They are released due to lack of evidence. Having previously received a full confession from Imran, Kelly imparts it to the police. They suspect Toyah of deliberately crashing the car and charge her with causing death by dangerous driving when CCTV shows no attempt to slow down, and forensics can find no fault with the vehicle. She is released on bail. Saira Habeeb arranges a Muslim funeral for her son. Adam reveals that Imran was about to change his will when he died. When the news leaks out, suspicions grow about Toyah’s motives, and she hides away in the flat while pretending to be staying with a cousin. Kelly finds her there and brings her out of her seclusion. Even Leanne begins to suspect her sister. Adam reports his suspicions to the police. Imran’s funeral is held with Saira accusing Toyah of murdering her son. The police find a final phone message from Imran to Toyah confessing his perjury and they charge her with murder. She rejects a defence of diminished responsibility. To Debbie Webster’s fury, Leanne takes £5,000 from the bistro business account to fund Toyah’s legal case. Toyah tries to return to work but Sarah refuses to let her when client Jo Lafoe makes it clear that she doesn’t approve of a murder suspect working in the factory.
- Alfie is taken into foster care. Elliot reopens the case for Abi to gain custody. On the day of the hearing, Jack overhears a row between his father and Debbie and is shocked to discover the circumstances of his birth and Kevin’s affair with Molly Dobbs. Tyrone talks him out of his anger and Jack gives Abi his blessing. Social services opposes the application, but the judge grants a delighted Abi an interim care order giving her custody of Alfie in a foster unit where she will be rigorously assessed over a period of time. She moves in with her assessor: Wendy Papadopoulos. Abi is uneasy when she sees Wendy keeping notes on her and Wendy is a bag of nerves when she accompanies Abi back to the street to see Kevin and Jack, desperate not to bump into the Barlows. Tracy spots her father’s old mistress and unleashes a torrent on invective. Back home, Wendy confesses to Abi that she and Ken have a history.
- Sean introduces Frank to his friends and George is shocked to recognise him as the person who bullied him relentlessly at school. Still badly affected years later, he begins to avoid socialising with the residents of No.11, confessing the reasons to Eileen. She makes Frank apologise for his treatment of years past, even though the man claims to remember nothing of note. George is pleased with the apology, until he hears Frank singing a tune that he used to torment him with and thinks that nothing has actually changed about hi,. Todd takes George’s side and decides to expose Frank’s fiery temper, but he manages to compose himself when provoked with a drink “accidentally” spilled over him. George then mistakes an overheard phone call as being threats that Frank is making and informed of the fact, Sean finishes with him. When Frank tells Sean he was helping an acting friend, the two get back together and resolve not to let George come between them.
- Cathy feels dissatisfied with her life with Brian, tired of hearing him talk about Cornwall and taking no note of her reservations. She then finds letters from Julie Carp to Brian in which she wonders if they will get back together. Daisy plans a cocktail tutorial at the Rovers and Cathy, Rita and Evelyn sign up for it. Depressed about Brian, Cathy gets drunk at the event and kisses Jim Fizz, the mixologist, in the pub’s back yard. Mortified, she accepts a proposal of marriage from Brian who then finds out about the kiss from Jim. He finishes with her, then apologises but annoys her by making a presumptive offer for a house in Cornwall. Seeing that it’s the end of the road, Cathy moves away from the street to live with a friend in Chorlton. Brian quickly bounces back and tries to change his image with new clothes, until Evelyn makes him see that he’s wasting his time.
- Still unable to find a job, Leo fills his time by making his own homebrew. Jenny cheers him up by making it the Rovers’ guest ale but she and Daisy think it tastes awful. They switch the pumps with a Newton & Ridley ale so as not to hurt Leo’s feelings. People think his craft ale is nice and he considers making it his occupation, so Jenny has to admit to the deception to make him take up a proper job offer.
- Max is encouraged by Chris and Blake, two schoolfriends, to ask out Sonya, a girl he fancies. The two chat online where she compliments his looks. He practices his cooking skills on an amused David and Shona, keen to impress her. Pushed by his friends, and with money loaned by David, Max books a meal at the bistro for the two of them. Beforehand, Sonya texts him asking for a naked picture and Max obliges, thinking they’re going to have sex. He then discovers she sent no such texts, and he is blackmailed by the messenger who demands £1,000 or the picture goes viral. Chris points out that he sent the photo to an underage girl and could be arrested. David discovers the truth when Max tries to take the money from his bank account. As he’s already on bail, Max begs him to pay up. David refuses. Max finds out that Blake and Chris are his blackmailers and Shona receives a bloodied nose when she intervenes in a fight between them. David agrees not to report the lads to the school when Max begs him to let the matter drop.
- Aadi helps a Summer by giving her a set of homemade revision cards which she takes into the exam to cheat with as she finds the pressure to succeed intolerable. They are found on the floor, and as they are in Aadi’s handwriting, he is the one accused of cheating. Dev suspects his son is covering for Summer. She initially denies cheating but eventually confesses, saying she no longer wants to go to university. Aadi is hurt that she is seeing Aaron, but she finishes with her new boyfriend. Disqualified from taking the exam again, she gets back together with Aaron and the two plan to go abroad on holiday together.
- Fiz prepares her wedding. With more repairs needed to the house than envisaged, Fiz accepts Tyrone’s offer for her and the girls to stay at No.9 while he moves back into the salon flat. To Fiz’s annoyance, Mimi Halliday changes her plans so that she can attend the wedding and also invites herself to come a few days beforehand to “help” with the arrangements. Hope refuses to be a bridesmaid.
Two old friends stagger home after partying on.
- Audrey has her long-awaited operation to remove her cataracts. Gail grows concerned her mother is drinking too much and hides the wine bottles, but Audrey carries on regardless. Gail is taken on again as a cleaner at the bistro. Shona can’t relax and Bernie tries crystal therapies on her, advising her to get rid of a brass elephant that Gail bought back from Thailand as it’s creating all the negative energy in No.8. Gail refuses until Shona agrees to keep an eye on Audrey in returning for disposing of the ornament. Audrey gives her the slip and gets drunk with Rita in the Rovers where, their friendship restored, Rita tells her to stand up to her daughter and encourages her to return to work. David can’t evict her from the barbers where she gets drunk and fires her grandson and Kelly for annoying her. Alone in the barbers, she trips and falls under the prop motorbike. As her family think she’s returned to Grasmere Drive, she spends the night in the premises, unable to move. The next day, Brian and Elaine hear her cries, just as Stephen Reid arrives from Milan, summoned by Sarah to intervene in the family problem. She undergoes surgery for a ruptured spleen and rejects Gail for not caring for her. Stephen engineers a peace between them.
- Tim’s condition doesn’t change, and Dr Gaddas recommends a sex therapist for him and Sally. He reluctantly agrees and they meet Trina Kerrison who teaches them relaxation techniques. Tim finds Aggie a useful shoulder to cry on, though he finds it difficult to discuss specifics. Grateful for her help, he spoils a “first date” with Sally at the bistro, being distracted by helping in a marital dispute between the Baileys when Aggie thinks Ed is being soft with Toyah who is overdue with her rent. Ed is annoyed with Tim when he suggests he should pay more attention to Aggie but nevertheless he takes his wife for a meal out.
- Maria causes a recycling collector’s strike when she persuades the council to introduce extra bins for glass. The residents grow annoyed with her as uncollected bags of rubbish accumulate on the streets. She clashes with sexist strike team leader Jimmy Dixon when she tries to negotiate an end to the dispute and grows despondent when a video interview she has given is edited on social media to make her look foolish. Things get worse when an internet troll uploads a deepfake pornographic video with her face overlaid on it, and the same person then makes death threats against her. She gives a press conference which Jimmy Dixon heckles, causing Gary to attack him when he thinks he’s the troll. Dismayed by numerous critical online comments about her, she considers resigning but is given unexpected support from an incensed Sally who tells her to carry on her good work.
- Peter is outraged when the GMC say there is insufficient evidence to take action against Thorne. He entraps the surgeon into making a verbal confession which he records on Ken’s old journalist’s Dictaphone. Thorne offers £100,000 for the recording but Peter wants justice instead. Thorne tricks Simon into handing over the recording and goads Peter in the Rovers about wasting his life as an alcoholic. Peter attacks Thorne’s car while he’s sat in it and Adam has to intervene, paying for the damages in return for the matter being dropped.
July
- The bin strike is called off but Toyah, needing a distraction, organises a protest when the council decide to incinerate the backlog of recycled materials. To her surprise, Spider Nugent, turns up to join her. He’s back to turn Nuttall's Brewery into a squat. Toyah steals the keys for him from Debbie but alerted by Kirk who’s heard noises from the supposedly empty site, Debbie and Ronnie prevent Spider’s friends taking occupancy. Siara takes possession of her son’s ashes and refuses to let Toyah have a say in how they are scattered. Although Toyah allows Spider to stay in the flat, she soon asks him to leave, and he disappears after he’s arrested in a fracking protest.
- At a council function, Maria is accosted by both a belligerent Jimmy and Darren, a seedy man who recognises her from the deepfake video. Unbeknownst to her, he places a tracking device in her handbag. After receiving a text message alerting her to its presence, the police are alerted but Maria’s confidence is shattered, and she finds it hard to leave her flat. The police find proof that Jimmy is behind the malicious texts and also arrest Darren when they find he has tried the same trick on another woman.
- Mimi arrives for the wedding and she and Evelyn take an intense dislike to each other. Everyone but Phill suspects she is trying to sabotage the nuptials. They are surprised when his ex, Camilla Perrin, turns up and Fiz suspects that Mimi contacted her in order to lure Phill away. Camilla says she received e-mails from Phill, and he thinks his mother sent them. He packs her off but still allows her to attend the wedding. Then the registrar is cancelled using the same e-mail account and Tyrone discovers that Hope has been sending the e-mails, not wanting the event to go ahead.
- Unable to keep quiet any longer, Tyrone declares his love for Fiz. Filled with uncertainties, she marries Phill but realises at the reception that she feels nothing for him and leaves, secretly returning to Tyrone. Evelyn and the girls soon find out they are a couple again but are sworn to secrecy. They plan to ask Phill for an annulment, but he begs for two weeks to prove himself to his wife. Seeing that he isn’t coping well with their breakdown, Fiz agrees. Phill’s efforts to woo her all fail, but he thinks Tyrone is his loyal wingman. To ensure their renewed relationship gets off to the best start, Fiz and Tyrone see a couples’ therapist, but Phill chooses the same therapist for himself and Fiz to see, and walks in on one of Fiz and Tyrone’s sessions. Angrily, he threatens to divorce her on the grounds of adultery but soon calms down and, accepting that things are over, gives her the signed annulment.
- Nicky ends up in a police station when she involved in a fracas with a man who recognised her from her sex worker days. Peter gives her a taxi ride and informs Daniel who coldly refuses to get involved because of Daisy.
- No.1’s roof continues to leak, and Steve is conned by both a roofer and a scaffolder who disappear with his money. Tired of the impasse, Aggie orders Ed to do the repairs at mate’s rates. Ronnie asks Ed and Paul to go in with him building houses on the site of a derelict pub. Ed is electrocuted by bad wiring at one of Debbie’s hotels and ends up in hospital. Debbie discovers that Ray Crosby neither renewed the wiring certificate nor the professional indemnity insurance. Aggie demands compensation for loss of earnings. Debbie’s accountant recommends bankruptcy before Ray’s debts overwhelm her. The Baileys accept an offer of £30,000 which Debbie somehow has to find. She tries theme nights at the bistro but the first one proves disastrous. Ryan is upset to see Alya flirting with good-looking salesman Matt Bannnerman and thinks there’s nothing left for him in the area. At her wits’ end, Debbie offers Ryan money to stage a break in on the premises for the insurance proceeds.
- Kevin gives trained mechanic Aaron a trial period to cover Abi’s maternity leave. With his new money, Summer is relieved that they will be able to afford more than a beach holiday where she will not be expected to expose her body. Summer gets a job as a PA at the factory. She decides to lose her virginity to Aaron but cannot bring herself to undress before him. He decides it's best that they don't go on holiday which she takes as a sign that they have split up. Aaron has bruises which he claim comes from an attack, but he is also receiving phone calls which make him tearful and pressurised.
- Audrey is discharged from hospital and returns to Grasmere Drive where Stephen joins her. Wanting to see how much she can really trust her family, she announces she’s leaving all her money to WARTS in memory of Alf. With the exception of Stephen, they all react badly, and David goes so far as to seek out Adam’s advice on gaining power of attorney. Things don’t improve when she assures them that they will inherit but that Stephen will be the trustee. David’s constant insults drive Stephen away, angering Audrey. To make amends, the family lease back her salon from Debbie and do it up for her to run not realising it is the last thing that she wants. Unknown to anyone, she ends up in hospital having taken too many sleeping pills. A psychiatry liaison officer tries to ascertain the cause. Audrey leaves the hospital and is seen by Ed getting into a taxi. When Sarah finds out from him, Audrey lies to her as to why she was there. She admits to Nick that she doesn't want the salon. Stephen returns, much to her delight.
- Elaine plans to move from Bolton to be nearer to Tim and Sally. Yasmeen wants to help Stu trace his daughter, Bridget, after a parcel he sends her is returned by the new owner of her house. Depressed, he gets drunk at work. Yasmeen admires his honesty when he confesses the episode to her and decides to track down Bridget. She succeeds and Kelly encourages him to call on her. Stu does so and begs to be heard out about an incident thirty-four years ago when a girl was hurt, but Bridget slams the door in his face. He lies to Yasmeen that the address wasn't the correct one. After considering going out with Stephen, Yasmeen realises that Stu is the man for her and they move on to the next stage of their relationship. She approves of a scheme that Stu thinks of to sell surplus food cheaply and give it away to people with money. The cafe and Dev’s businesses join in with the scheme.
- Stephen comes up with a proposal for Underworld to buy cheaper materials from his company but Carla refuses to go ahead with the deal, telling Sarah that doing business with family never ends well.
- Tim is disappointed when he is momentarily aroused on Sally’s birthday but can go no further. Despite a momentary depression, he remains optimistic that things will improve soon.
- An appalled Aadi discovers that Kelly is going out with wads of the cash she inherited from her father and is handing it back to his loanshark victims. Alerted by Sharon Geary, Gary orders Kelly to stop but she refuses. She calls at the flat of the thuggish Ross Maloney who alerts Kieron Edgerton, a former business partner of Rick’s who was ripped off by him in the past. Kelly is kidnapped by the two men and held to ransom for £50,000 pounds. Gary manages to raise £24,000 which the men take although they won't release Kelly until they receive the difference. Taking a lesson out of Maria’s book, Gary has planted a tracking device in the bag with the money and is able to rescue Kelly. She is unnerved by the violent tendencies he exhibits towards her captors when rescuing her.
- Sean looks forward to a visit from Dylan Wilson and wants to introduce his son to Frank but he proves to be reluctant to meet the boy, making Todd and George suspicious. Frank suggests that he and Sean go on holiday without Dylan. When Dylan is injured playing football Frank is angrily dismissive and shouts at the boy to man up, shocking Sean who realises that George was right all along about him. He finishes with Frank.
Ken helps Wendy Papadopoulos relieve herself of her guilt.
- Abi is delighted when Wendy tells her that her final conclusion is that she should be allowed to take Alfie home to Kevin’s. Wendy is shocked to discover that Deirdre has died. Regretting her actions ten years before when she tried to split up the Barlows, she calls at No.1 and apologises to Ken. He draws a line under the matter although Tracy is incensed to see her back.
- Kevin has too many calls on his time as he prepares for Abi to return. Jack feels neglected and hits a boy at school who bullies him. With jobs piling on him, Kevin's temper is pushed over the edge when Stephen’s Jaguar breaks down just after it was supposedly fixed. Kevin snaps and smashes the car’s windows when Stephen angrily abuses him. Tyrone prevents Stephen from making a police complaint by telling him of all the troubles that Kevin and Abi have faced. She moves back into No.13 with the baby and the family are happily reunited.
Who lives where
Coronation Street
- Rovers Return Inn - Jenny Connor. Daisy Midgeley. Ronnie Bailey. Ryan Connor (until August). Leo Thompkins (from January). Alya Nazir (from January to May)
- 1 Coronation Street - Ken Barlow. Steve and Tracy McDonald. Amy Barlow (until March and from May). Jacob Hay (from May)
- Audrey's Salon flat (No.2a) - Emma Brooker (until April). Tyrone Dobbs (until April, and from May to July). Craig Tinker and Faye Windass (from January).
- 3 Coronation Street - Ed, Aggie, Michael, James Bailey and Glory Bailey.
- 4 Coronation Street - Sally and Tim Metcalfe. Faye Windass (until January). Elaine Jones (from January until April).
- 5 Coronation Street - Chesney and Joseph Brown. Gemma Winter. Aled, Bryn, Carys and Llio Winter-Brown. Bernie Winter.
- 6 Coronation Street - Yasmeen Metcalfe. Alya (until January and from May). Zeedan Nazir (until January and from May). Stu Carpenter (from January).
- 7 Coronation Street - Dev, Aadi and Asha Alahan.
- 8 Coronation Street - Gail Rodwell. David, Shona and Lily Platt and Max Turner. Audrey Roberts (until July).
- 9 Coronation Street - Fiz, Hope Stape and Ruby Dobbs (until April and from May). Evelyn Plummer. Tyrone Dobbs (from April to May, and from July)
- Kabin flat (No.10a) - Rita Tanner.
- 11 Coronation Street - Eileen Grimshaw. Todd Grimshaw. Mary Taylor. Sean Tully.
- 12 Coronation Street - Brian Packham. Cathy Matthews (until June). Alex Warner.
- 13 Coronation Street - Kevin and Jack Webster. Abi Webster (until March, June only, and from July). Alfie Webster (from July).
- Corner Shop flat (No.15a) - Daniel and Bertie Osbourne. Paul Foreman. Nicky and Maisie Wheatley (from April to May).
Rosamund Street
Victoria Street
- Jamila House flat (No.14a) - Empty.
- Street Cars flat (No.15a) - Peter and Carla Barlow.
- Roy's Rolls flat (No.16a) - Roy Cropper. Nina Lucas.
- Prima Doner flat (No.18a) - Kirk and Beth Sutherland. Craig Tinker (until January).
- Builder's Yard flat (No.19a) - Imran Habeeb (until June). Toyah Battersby/Habeeb. Elsie (until April). Alfie Franklin (from May to June).
Victoria Court
- 5 Victoria Court - Maria and Liam Connor. Gary Windass. Kelly Neelan. Laura Neelan (March only).
- 12 Victoria Court - Leanne Battersby. Simon Barlow. Nick Tilsley. Sam Blakeman.
Redbank Apartments
- 7 Redbank Apartments - Adam and Sarah Barlow and Harry Platt.
Others
- 6 Copson Avenue - Phill Whittaker (from April). Fiz and Hope Stape, and Ruby Dobbs (April only).
- 5 Grasmere Drive - Audrey Roberts (from July). Stephen Reid (from July).
- 28 Grayling Street - Izzy Armstrong and Jake Windass.
- Flat 3, 52 Westgate Lane - Abi Webster (from March until June).
- Wendy Crozier's house - Abi Webster (from June until July)
Awards and nominations
BAFTA
Ceremony held on 8th May 2022
- Best Soap and Continuing Drama: Coronation Street (Winner)
British Soap Awards
Ceremony held on 11th June 2022
- Best British Soap: Coronation Street (Nominee)
- Best Leading Performer: Sally Carman (Nominee)
- Best Family: The Alahans (Nominee)
- Villain of the Year: Maximus Evans (Winner)
- Best Comedy Performer: Jane Hazlegrove (Nominee)
- Best Newcomer: Paddy Bever (Nominee)
- Best Storyline: Hate Crime (Nominee)
- Best Single Episode: Flashback (Nominee)
- Best Dramatic Performance: Sally Carman (Nominee)
- Best On-Screen Partnership: David Neilson & Mollie Gallagher (Nominee)
- Best Young Performer: Millie Gibson (Winner)
- Scene of the Year: Johnny Connor's death (Nominee)
- The Tony Warren Award: Jan McVerry
Inside Soap Awards
- Best Soap: Coronation Street (Nominee)
- Best Actor: David Neilson (Nominee), Michael Le Vell (Nominee), Mikey North (Nominee)
- Best Actress: Sally Carman (Nominee), Millie Gibson (Nominee), Georgia Taylor (Nominee)
- Best Newcomer: Paddy Bever (Nominee), Bill Fellows (Nominee) (Nominee)
- Best Comic Performance: Maureen Lipman (Nominee), Jimmi Harkishin (Nominee)
- Best Partnership: David Neilson and Mollie Gallagher (Nominee), Alan Halsall and Jamie Kenna (Nominee)
- Best Storyline: Abi’s battle for baby Alfie (Nominee), Fiz’s love dilemma (Nominee)
- Best Villain: Maximus Evans (Nominee), Rebecca Ryan (Nominee)
- Best Family: The Platts (Nominee), The Alahans (Nominee)
- Feelgood Moment: Abi’s battle for baby Alfie (Nominee), Fiz’s love dilemma (Nominee)@
- Best Young Performer: Isabella Flanagan (Nominee), Jude Riordan (Nominee)
- Best Romance: Elle Mulvaney & Jack James Ryan (Nominee), Sally Dynevor & Joe Duttine (Nominee)
- Best Showstopper: Imran’s shock death (Nominee), Sinkhole horror/Johnny drowns (Nominee)
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