There was relief on the Coronation Street cobbles as Joseph Brown was returned to his dad Chesney Brown.
The 10-year-old had Chesney and his partner Gemma Winter worried sick when he went missing last week after being bullied at school because they can't afford to buy him things.
But while Chesney and Gemma Winter made a public appeal for the youngster's safe return, and an appeal raised £30,000 reward money, his cousin Hope Stape was hiding him in her loft.