Teenage kicks! Gabby winds up Bernice

In the wake of Tess' shock death, Paddy is a broken man. Having had a bitter row with Tess, who wanted to start a new life with him, Paddy can't believe what happened next. With his wife Rhona unaware of their affair, the vet is struggling to keep it together around her. When Pierce turns up to talk to the couple about what happened at the crash scene when they found his wife, Tess, Paddy is barely able to string a sentence together, let alone comfort the widowed husband. And when Pearl later gives Paddy a Valentine card, thinking it's from Rhona, the vet is rocked to his core. It's from Tess…

Killer Kirin is trying to cover his tracks. He approaches Ross to ask the mechanic if he can get rid of his car for him. Ross isn't stupid and doesn't fall for Kirin's claims that he stole the vehicle. When Ross suggests Kirin was the man who mowed down Tess, Kirin neither confirms nor denies it. But Ross will only help him if he comes up with £20K, which he doesn't have. Things get way worse when Kirin then discovers Tess has died. It's made front page news on the local paper. Kirin's forced to turn to his lawyer dad, Rakesh, who reels when he son admits he was the hit and run driver. Given the state of their fractured relationship, will Rakesh help and try to save his son from jail?

Elsewhere, at Home Farm, Gabby is about to give herself a 'scouse brow' when Sam turns up looking for Lawrence's latest list of jobs for him. Wanting to get shot of Sam, Gabby sends him off on a wild goose chase before setting to work on her eyebrows with a black permanent marker! As for Sam, unaware he's looking for a broken fence which doesn't exist and, instead, the groundsman comes across a burned-out car…

Sarah Waterfall
Soaps Editor at What's On TV

Sarah has been writing about soaps for over 20 years! She’s worked for Hello!, WOMAN, PA News, Closer, TVeasy – and is currently What’s On TV's Soap editor as well as writing for WhatToWatch.com 

She’s interviewed tons of famous people from movie stars to pop stars, TV stars and of course, soap stars. The soaps have always been at the heart of Sarah's work; visiting the sets, getting the goss, and writing about all the soapy shenanigans week in week out, earning her a place on the judging panel for The British Soap Awards in 2017 and 2018 and on the BAFTA TV Awards in 2022 … and the nickname Soapbird!