THE SOAP YEARS

The storylines time will never forget

10 YEARS AGO – EMMERDALE

Amy Wyatt (pictured) secretly gave birth in the cemetery and, terrified that her baby boy was dead, abandoned him. After he was discovered alive, Amy’s foster parents Eric and Val Pollard were stunned as they didn’t even know she was pregnant. 15

Cilla BattersbyBrown (above, with husband Les) was diagnosed with skin cancer and, after finding out Les had cheated on her, pretended it was terminal. The plan quickly backfired after Weatherfield’s residents did a collection for her.

YEARS AGO – CORRIE 20 YEARS AGO – EASTENDERS

When Roy Evans’s former mistress Jane Williams said she was dying of cancer, Roy (pictured) confessed to his family that Jane’s son, Nathan, was his. The news upset Roy’s other son, Barry, as he felt Roy had betrayed his dead mum.