Emmerdale fans are soon to learn of a heartbreaking death which is set to leave a soap favourite devastated.
Emmerdale viewers will next week see Ryan Stocks, played by James Moore, struggle to come to terms with the death of his adoptive mother Irene Stocks.
The details of her death have yet to be confirmed but the news, reported by our colleagues at The Mirror, will send Ryan into a spiral of sorrow and sadness.