Stephen Reid surprised his family when he appeared back in Weatherfield last month - just as his mother Audrey Roberts suffered a drunken accident. The character, played by Todd Boyce, returned to Coronation Street in a taxi just as his mum was pleading for help after falling in the barbers.
It came as Audrey's drinking appeared to take a dark turn and the former hairdresser was left alone in the barbers, Trim Up North, when she sacked grandson David Platt as well as Kelly Neelan and Maria Windass as she decided to drunkenly get back into her old trade.
After another confrontation with her daughter, Gail, Audrey drunkenly knocked into a display motorbike in the barbers and ended up trapped underneath it with her cries for help unheard. That was until the next day when Brian Packham and Eileen Metcalfe heard the quiet pleas just as Stephen's taxi pulled up. He was soon seen breaking down the door, worried for his mum, who he finds lying barely conscious on the floor of the barbers.
