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lol Corrie scraping the barrel?
As soon as they have a actual actiony storyline they get slated, yet EE has murders a plenty and HO well...

Also the axe thing was a joke by Samia Smith, not an actual stoyline

Aye and Abi, I wonder if this leads upto the Mortons exit?

Yesterdays episodes were good, I thought the story between Blanche and Ken was Hilarious. Unfortunately their will be no Tango Watch as I didn't spot any blatant abusers of Fake tan!

lol
Corrie looks to be getting really good from next month!

lol yeah the blanche/ken thimg was so funny

lol yah!
Corrie is becoming what it used to be again!

ken/ted could be a good duo

Audrey Roberts' trip to France with Janice, Bill and Roger ends up in A&E when the hairdresser is forced to drive the van.

The trip goes to plan until they get a puncture, giving Janice and the fellas the perfect excuse to tuck into their lager haul while they wait for recovery.

By the time the vehicle's roadworthy again Audrey is the only one sober enough to take the wheel.

Actress Sue Nicholls told TV Times: "Everyone's being a bit lairy and Janice keeps criticising Audrey's driving.

"When Bill has a go at her as well, that's the last straw, and Audrey turns round to give him a mouthful...

"But she takes her eyes off the road and has to swerve to avoid another vehicle and the van plunges down a verge."

While the drunkards escape almost unhurt, Audrey's injuries are more serious and she's rushed to hospital.

NOOOOO! Not Audrey! Anyone but Audrey, Injure Roger, nobody likes him! :joker:

aww poor audery. And roger is ok i guess...

EVEN Corrie is not safe from Britain's yob culture, as it shows a sickening and vicious gang attack on two female cops.

Policewoman Abi Sharpe (Rachael Elizabeth) is left half-blind from the savage beating, and is unable to return to her job.

Her colleague Mel Morten (Emma Edmondson) is also battered, and plots revenge against the women who attacked them.

The scenes are the most violent in Corrie's history.

Click here for pictures of the bloody brawl

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“This storyline is very ugly indeed and could clearly be very upsetting to watch,” says an insider.

The fight starts after Mel and Abi try to break up a drunken argument between four girls outside a Weatherfield bar.

But the chavs turn on the policewomen, kicking and punching them, and breaking a bottle over Abi's head.

Abi suffers permanent eye damage, and faces a lifetime of desk work or a new career.

This infuriates her friend Mel, who is determined to punish the female gang.

Mel warns her brother Darryl (Jonathan Dixon), “I watched the scraggy bitch laugh as she stuck the boot in to Abi’s face and then laugh again when we had to release her.

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From DailyMail By Simon Cable

It certainly can't be accused of shying away from controversy.

But after almost five decades on air, Coronation Street is set to deliver its biggest shock yet with gratuitous scenes of girl-on-girl gang violence.

It is the first time that the popular programme has depicted a 'happy-slapping' style attack among female characters.

And the scenes are made all the more appalling after appearing to capitalise on the fears of escalating teen violence across Britain's streets.

It is a new low for the programme with some fans now demanding an end to the increasingly aggressive scenes featured in the long-running soap.

Fansites were today attracting angry comments from viewers with some even accusing the show of encouraging violence among teenagers.

The episode will be screened in September and will be aired before the 9pm watershed.

It shows four young women setting upon undercover police officers Mel Morton and Abi Sharpe in an unprovoked attack after the pair are sent to investigate trouble at a local bar.

They are beaten with fists, kicked and stamped on and even have glass bottles smashed over their heads.

One vicious assailant shows no-mercy as she brutally stamps on Abi's head as she lays helpless and unconscious on the pavement before being left for dead.

Fans flooded internet forums today with one saying: "A Corrie catfight is one thing. It's a bit of a classic scenario to watch Eileen and Gail or Janice and anybody squaring up to each other across the cobbles.

'But isn't all the violence on Coronation St getting a bit much? It seems there isn't an argument that can't be settled without someone getting slapped or punched.

One who called himself Quiteman said: 'The writers of Corrie have for the last year or so been sending out all the wrong signals to our youngsters.

'I have been an avid fan for forty plus years but am now minded to switch to another soap. Kids think they can get away with murder after watching it. It's gone on too long.'

The timely storyline on this occasion comes comes amid concerns of escalating knife-crime and fears that many urban areas are becoming no-go areas at night.

Another wrote: 'It seems like the times when Corrie have tried to get "real". Like the mid-90s when drug dealers beat Des Barnes to death. A lot of viewers tune out.

'It's a cop-out to say they are doing this to show realism. They want drama pure and simple.'

Broadcast regulator Ofcom today revealed it had received one pre-transmission complaint over the violence featured in an upcoming episode of Coronation Street.

A spokesman said: 'It is the broadcaster's responsibility to adhere to the Ofcom broadcasting code. If we receive complaints from viewers after the broadcast then we will consider them.

'We have had one pre-transmission complaint but we don't have any power to act until after the programme has been shown and until then we can't comment on specific aspects.'

Ofcom guidelines state violence 'must be appropriately limited in programmes broadcast before the watershed or when children are particularly likely to be listening'.

It adds violence easily imitable by children should not be shown before the watershed 'unless there is strong editorial justification'.

Since the programme first hit British television screens in 1960, the ITV show has caused a public outcry from viewers on a number of occasions.

In 1977, writers came under fire after actress Anne Kirkbride's character Dierdre was molested and almost raped on the way home from an exercise class.

Last year, programme-makers were accused of copying the case of Madeleine McCann too closely after the disappearance of a child in a housefire.A night out on the town turns into a life and death ordeal for Mel Morton and her friend WPC Abi Sharpe, played by Emma Edmondson and Rachael Elizabeth respectively.

The pair are set upon by a gang of teenage girls who beat them black and blue in an unprovoked attack.

The random violence plaguing Britain's streets is coming to Coronation Street in shocking scenes that are set to stun viewers.

omg poor abi. Mel might get killed too by the gang

Yah, I have a feeling that this gang will be the end of the Mortons somehow

Brilliant episode tonight

Dev is a really good character, its good to see him back in action

lol dev is really funny i agree and amber is too

Yeah! lol
Johnathan Harvey my fave scriptwriter wrote this ep too
He is the greatest writer the street has