Coronation Street

Despite presenting himself as the most easy going guy in the world to everyone else, Geoff continues to manipulate Yasmeen and give her absolute hell for the previous night.  He belittles her and forces her to apologise for everything she didn’t do wrong, manipulating her until she is begging him for forgiveness.  All the while, he is painting her in a terrible light to Tim.  Without permission, he then spends all the insurance money on CCTV throughout the house on the pretence of making Yasmeen feel safer after the mugging and burglary but when she objects, he is absolutely livid, accusing her of blaming him for everything, being passive aggressive and even flirting with the engineer.  He rips out the CCTV and breaks up with her and moves in with Tim, where he can spy on her through the one secret camera he left behind.  With Yasmeen utterly devastated, Geoff behaves as the reasonable party and even befriends her again by helping her with the online banking (having previously locked her out by changing her passwords).  He then invents a serious health condition to make her worry about him.

Aggie’s frustration with Ed for not finishing the DIY jobs around the house lead her to discover that all is not well with their finances.  When she and Ed uncover Michael’s involvement in Bernie’s ridiculous pregnancy stick scam, Aggie assumes that their money worries are to do with her son, as she already believes that the reason they lost their house and their money before and ended up on Coronation Street was because of him.  However, the truth comes tumbling out eventually and it was actually because of Ed’s gambling but not wanting his father to get into trouble or his parents’ marriage to fall apart, Michael took the blame.  In a bid to make some money, Aggie takes a job in the café.

Bethany’s past comes back to haunt her when a man she recognises from one of Nathan’s parties walks into the Bistro with his wife and daughter.  While she wants to ignore him, Daniel goes against her wishes and confronts him.  An argument between husband and wife (and Daniel) ensues and the family rush out of the restaurant.  When Bethany is nearly hit by the wife’s car, Craig rushes in to save her (as ever) and gets knocked down instead.  Bethany is furious with Daniel for disempowering her when she wanted to handle things in her own way.  On the positive side, Craig is fine, the man confesses everything to the police and Bethany decides that she wants to use her traumatic experiences to help other victims.

Steve continues to support Emma and sneakily manages to gather some of her hair for a DNA test, which proves that he is her biological father.  He clumsily tells her the truth right before her Dad’s funeral and she does not take the news well, having already fallen out with her brother and her mother for lying to her for her entire life.  Then she falls out with Audrey for breaking her confidence.  Steve meanwhile, gets into trouble with Tracy for having yet another surprise child!  Feeling like she has nowhere left to turn, Emma decides to move away but in the end it’s actually Amy (with the support of Tracy) who persuades her to stay and build a relationship with the sister she never knew she had.

Max attacks Nick at Lily’s party, ruining it and forcing Shona to send everyone home – having already attacked him the day before.  It soon transpires that he hasn’t been taking his ADHD medication and he is struggling with David’s incarceration.

(Doctors is on its summer break)

Eastenders

Phil is released from hospital remarkably quickly, considering he nearly died and is immediately on the warpath.  He sees right through Ben’s welcome home party and wants to know why he and Jay were arguing by his beside at the hospital.  Ben denies it and Jay covers for him, despite the state of their current relationship.  With flashes of memory, he recalls the involvement of the Slaters in the attack and tracks Kat down, demanding to know the truth.  She tells him most of it, putting herself at the attacker instead of Stacey, exchanging no consequences if she tells him the most important thing – that Ben saw what happened and prevented them from calling an ambulance and subsequently framed Keanu.  Luring Ben with a rumour that he is about to fall off the wagon, Phil confronts Ben and gets the whole truth out of him, including that he only returned to the Square to ruin him.  Ben and Phil’s relationship is over and Ben is gunning for Kat and the rest of the Slaters.

Callum awkwardly tells Stuart that he cannot be his best man and asks Mick instead.  Mel learns that Hunter has been moved to a young offenders unit up north for his own protection.  On the way, he escapes.  Tensions reach breaking point between Max and Rainie.

Emmerdale

The pub is forced to close due to dry rot but Charity is thrilled when Harriet offers up the village halls as a base, as it has an alcohol licence.

Paddy reads Bear a letter from his mother and lies that she was still in love with him and wanted to be with him.  Actually, she had chosen Paddy’s father.

Moira and Nate’s boring affair heats up.  Apparently.

Jacob settles back in with his family but David and Leyla are concerned when they discover that he has been sending letters to Maya in prison, which haven’t got through.  Jacob and the other kids get their exam results but upon not doing very well, as expected, Jacob decides to do an apprenticeship in hospitality with Eric so that he can learn a trade.  However, things get complicated when he mistakes a kind gesture from Priya as her hitting on him.  She is mortified and goes straight to David and things do get sorted out.  Jacob is embarrassed and apologetic.

Tracy is determined to prove her father’s innocence for the fire but she feels like she is the only one.  Not even Vanessa believes in Frank.

Hollyoaks

The pressure mounts on Breda as the police investigate Louis’s murder, believing that he is the victim of the serial killer.  Jack supports Lisa who is struggling to grieve but with Breda not wanting Lisa to spot her partner unwittingly wearing a dead man’s ring, she pays for Lisa to fly out to visit her mother and brother.  With a new victim having surfaced, Tony’s concern for Harry is reignited and his desperate search for his son resumes.

Damon decides to throw a ‘living funeral’ for Maxine to show her while she is still alive just how special she is.  Sienna tries to force her friend to admit the truth about her Munchausen’s but even at the funeral, while everyone is standing up and giving their heartfelt speeches about how much they love her, she cannot tell the truth.  She needs the attention too much.  At the funeral, Damon is arrested for fraud.  Having confessed to horrified Brody about taking money from Maxine’s charity fund, Damon accuses innocent Brody of telling the police what he has done.

With Bobby rejecting Mercedes, she agrees to run away with Liam and start a new life away from her son, husband and family.

Home and Away

Nearly the whole Bay turns out to celebrate Robbo and Jasmine’s wedding.  However, things go awry at the reception when armed police show up to whisk them away.  The gang that killed Robbo’s wife and children when he worked for the police appear to have resurfaced and Robbo, Jasmine and Tori are potentially in danger.  Tori, who ended up avoiding the wedding due to anxiety over meeting Robbo’s parents (who were also intercepted by the police) is also taken away by the police and they are all put into protective custody.

Bella skips the wedding in order to go to the photography exhibition with Tommy.  She is unnerved when he suddenly shows up at her door instead of meeting like they planned.  It quickly transpires that Tommy is not interested in going to the exhibition and wants to keep Bella in the house.  Frightened, she locks herself in the bathroom.  He pretends to leave but when she exits the bathroom, thinking she is safe, he attacks her.  Irene walks in on the attack and hits him.  He panics and begs them to keep the incident a secret, triggering a painful memory in Irene’s psyche.  She attacks him and knocks him out.  Irene panics so Bella takes control.  They take him to the hospital and hide the evidence that connect them to him.

Colby and Mac spend the night together the night before the article against her father appears in the paper.  Unfortunately, the article slates Dean’s mother more than their father.  Dean is hurt and Rick is furious as journalists descend on the Bay, desperate the find out as much gossip as possible.  Rick continues to attempt to get Dean onside.  However, Dean ends up punching him, which gets caught on camera.

Raffy feels left out over Ryder’s new job so she decides to take over his old job at the juice bar.  Ben’s surfboard job is finally complete, only for him to get arrested for supposedly using the boards as a way of transporting drugs overseas.

Neighbours

Yashvi breaks a date with her Dad by getting carried away with Ned, only for Shane to walk in on them!  Oops!  She ends up having a huge row with her parents and decides to move out but Ned persuades her to return home.  However, with her parents having already tried to bribe her by offering to buy her a car in exchange for returning home, she accepts the car without telling them she was coming home anyway!

Leo meets a woman called Carmen and they end up in bed together.  However, after a night together, knowing she is an accountant, he asks her to look at the bar’s accounts.  Once alone with Leo’s laptop, she logs into his internet banking and steals all his money.  It turns out that Carmen is a member of Vance’s family and he was specifically targeted by her.  Mark investigates but as Vance put a significant portion of cash into the bar, if it turns out that the money was dodgy from the start, they may not even have the money returned.  Paul offers to help in exchange for partnership so Leo reluctantly accepts helps from David and Aaron instead.  But without enough income, Leo and a very angry Roxy have no choice but to shut the bar down.

While Leo is busy stressing about the bar, Roxy causes havoc on a task set by Terese to collect her wedding dress with Harlow.  She insists on trying the dress on and ends up tearing it.  Later, the girls get into a huge food fight, only for Gail, Paul’s second ex-wife and Harlow’s grandmother to walk in on them.  While Gail warns Terese against marrying Paul and is keen to take Harlow to live with her, Harlow wants to stay in Erinsborough.  Gail decides to stay put for the time being too and even agrees to a date with Gary!

With Clive having broken up with her and Gary not speaking to her, Sheila is feeling very lost and alone.  Everyone is worried when Sheila goes missing.