Waterloo Road fans were left pleasantly surprised on Monday with the new that three original cast members are rejoining the show for its new series.
Sixteen years have now passed since the hit BBC drama first launched on screen screen, with a number of well known faces in the cast including Jill Halfpenny, Denise Welch, Jason Merrells and Angela Griffin.
The harrowing death of Jill's character, drama teacher Izzie Redpath, gave Waterloo Road one of its most dramatic storylines in the early days, while Izzie's daughter Clo and boyfriend Donte were at the centre of drink driving and teenage pregnancy plots.
