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A new family arrives in Skelthwaite, putting Anna's nose out of joint. David is shocked when Karen is contacted by a figure from the past. Beth thinks it's time Tom made their living arrangement official. And a fund-raising idea is put in motion.
Having moved to the village to be closer to ailing father Alan, the Boothe family try hard to settle in, with Sally taking a nursing position at the health centre and husband Billy starting a new job at the paper factory. Meanwhile, Karen spends more time with long-lost son Russell - not realising she's pushing David out of the equation - and hairdresser Gloria prepares for daughter Tamsin's forthcoming wedding.
David is devastated when Karen follows her runaway son to London. Sally and Anna deal with a single father who is struggling to cope with his son's cystic fibrosis. Alan enters the men in a talent contest to raise money for the rugby team, little realising how untalented they really are.
Karen decides to concentrate all her efforts on helping Russell battle his heroin addiction - even at the risk of destroying her marriage - and arrives in London to find her troubled son living in a squalid bedsit. Meanwhile, Anna and Beth look after a pensioner they believe should be transferred to sheltered accommodation - but he's none too pleased with the proposal, and promptly escapes.
Heartbroken that Karen has left Skelthwaite to take care of her heroin-addicted son in London, a dejected David yearns to leave the village, taking Jess with him — but soon discovers his daughter has made a happy life with new boyfriend Joe. Meanwhile, Sally catches truant schoolboy Nathan in a compromising situation with Candida, and Anna fears for the health of elderly farm owner Essie Crayford.
A line dancing champion whisks Anna off her feet and takes her out to dinner — but the course of true love doesn't run smooth and she's soon pining to be rescued from the predicament. Beth is delighted to discover she's having a baby, but her joy is short-lived when it emerges the pregnancy is ectopic. Nathan is heartbroken when Candida reveals she plans to tour the world during her gap year and Rita confesses she suspects her husband Martin is having an affair.
Unable to put the tragic loss of her baby behind her, a heartbroken Beth calls off the wedding, while the Scorpions decide to pose for a nude calendar to raise funds for the club's floodlights. Meanwhile, new parents Susan and Steve eagerly await Elaine's departure so they can be on their own with their baby — little suspecting the houseguest has a surprise in store.
Beth and Tom prepare to tie the knot, but reckon without a few last-minute hitches as Joe suddenly decides he can't be the best man and the bride worries over whether to invite her father. Meanwhile, Sally bites off more than she can chew, the green-eyed monster in Anna makes an appearance when Beth's cousin takes a shine to David and a multiple sclerosis sufferer requires assistance.
Anna, Sally and Beth decide to go on strike and let the men deal with Christmas, with disastrous results. Meanwhile, a teenage daughter returns home and reveals she is pregnant, Beth meets an unusual patient, Anna and David share a moment and Sam campaigns for a White Christmas.
