Nobody is dead but serious surgery lies ahead for Tony.

Radio Times: Peggy leaves her party early, and Ed does the right thing.

Characters: Ed, Helen, Johnny, Pat, Peggy, Tony

• Time has not moved on from yesterday’s episode. Ed takes charge, directing Johnny to help him get the bull under control. It seems that Henry escaped Johnny’s grip and made a bee line for his grandad. The bull turned on the boys but Tony got in between to save them and was crushed by the bull against a wall and then trampled on. Tony is soon on his way to Birmingham in an air ambulance, though not before Peggy has been over to see him. Helen rings her mum who heads for the hospital too.
• Tony has serious injuries to his chest and back, plus a broken leg. The spinal specialist explains the injury to Tony’s back. Depending on the result of an MRI scan he expects to recommend surgery, though it is not entirely without risk: Tony could end up completely paralysed from the waist down. While they wait for the scan Pat says the sort of things we often forget to say and urges Tony to keep fighting. Don’t you dare leave me now!
• (What next? Hayley’s gone with no promise of a return; Mike and Vicky are going; Ruth is practically in Prudhoe already. These latest turns of the plot make pushing Nigel off the roof look trivial. Mark my words, if David, Ruth, Jill and the children are all written out there will be rioting in the streets!)