Pip's personality change, over-the-top plots and agricultural concerns - we put your questions to the Ambridge boss

As firefighter Paul sparks controversy in an upcoming plotline, David Brown looks at race relations in soaps

The show's longest-serving cast member passes away after more than 30 years' service on the ITV soap

"I did find myself slumped on a shallow grave on a night shoot looking up at the crew and saying, 'has it always been as dark as this?'"

The actress reveals that the troubled character is on a downward spiral

"Their brother-sister fighting is raw and horrid and totally runs on adrenaline," says actress Alison King

The recent British Soap Awards winner reveals what lies ahead in the surrogacy storyline: "Tina would want the baby to go to a happy home and if Izzy and Gary can’t offer him that, then maybe she’d reconsider.”

Actress Laura Norton reveals all about the shock declaration that sets tongues wagging in the village

“Just when Karl thinks he’s come out of the torrents into calm water, he can see that Dev is going to stir up a tornado again. So he needs to get in there and sort that out," says actor John Michie

The actress also reveals what she makes of the refurbishment at the Rovers: “I don’t like those seats. They’re too pale. They’ll get covered in stains what with all those little old men who sit on them"