Next week sees the return of Audrey Roberts' son Stephen Reid to Coronation Street after 15 years as fears about her drinking reach crisis point. Rita Tanner finds Audrey in the Rovers, enjoying her first drink of the day and she suggests it’s time Audrey went back to work.
Grandson David Platt despairs as Audrey announces she’s returning to work, before cracking open the wine and flirting with Ryan Connor. David asserts it’s time Audrey went home, but as she heads for her coat, she trips and is sent sprawling across the floor.
Arriving to find a tipsy Audrey playing table football with Ryan, Maria insists she go home but Audrey refuses. At her wit’s end Gail tries to talk some sense into Audrey.
