EANNE Battersby should know better than to accept a lift from a stranger. Or even someone she knows, namely Paul Connor, who thinks she's done the dirty on him and told his wife that he's been visiting prostitutes - and not to read their gas meters.

Problems have been mounting up like rubbish bins on a fortnightly collection for Paul, boss of Underworld knicker factory. His elastic is stretched to breaking point in Coronation Street (ITV1), so when wife Carla confronts him about visiting ladies of the night, he assumes Leanne has ratted on him.

She, after all, knows all about being the queen of tarts as she works as a prostitute, something Paul discovered when he ordered a takeaway from Weatherfield Escort Agency (motto: service with a smile and money-back guarantee if not fully satisfied) and Leanne turned up.

Paul arranges a meeting in a car park with Leanne. He bundles her into the boot of his car and drives off at speed. Now Leanne is not unacquainted with the latest models of motor car but is more used to testing the back seat than the boot.

Worse is to come. The car crashes and Paul and Leanne are carted off to hospital where the Connor family wait for news.

To pass the time, Carla blabs about Leanne's line of work to her brotherin- law and Leanne's boyfriend, Liam.

He didn't know he was getting for free what every other man in Weatherfield was paying for. Is he grateful? Of course not. I reckon it could be the end of a beautiful friendship between Liam and Leanne.

Elsewhere in the Street, Liz Macdonald is feeling guilty, possibly because her short skirts/low-cut tops are guilty of causing a public nuisance. Her problem is that during a night out at the licensees' ball with fiance Vernon, she bumps into Derek and Linda. This is a potentially explosive situation as Rovers landlady Liz and Derek have been pulling pints behind Linda's back. Liz doesn't know where to put herself when Linda starts crying on her shoulder pads that her husband has found another woman. Little does Linda know that she's found her too.

Ken Barlow is still hanging around old flame Denise, mother of his son Daniel. Soft lights, a glass of wine, a video of Friday The 13th Part 9 - Deirdre's Back... and soon their lips are heading towards each other like a pair of magnetic sink plungers.

The dangers lurking in the home cause trouble for Rosemary in Emmerdale (ITV1) when she topples over the bannisters and falls with a thud on to the floor below. And she'd been looking so well after her holiday when she missed all the fun as the King brothers were found not guilty of killing her almost-husband Tom, the king of Kings defenestrated on their wedding day.

Merry widow Rosemary is trapped by Carrie (Tom's nurse and father of yet another King child) into confessing that she tried to fix evidence at the trial. Then Carrie learns that Carl, the tallest man in soap, has been telling the tallest stories because he did it. Carrie has a soft spot for Carl and we know precisely where it is because she helped him lose his viriginity when she wasn't bed-bathing his father.

Amid all the confusion, Rosemary takes a tumble. Lying helpless on the floor, she's told no one will call for help until she's signed over Home Farm to the King brothers.

Marlon Dingle is proving his stupidity by betting £3,000 of his savings on a dog. No jokes about Kelly, please. He backs the winner, only to have his winning ticket torn up by the bookie. Now Marlon has to refill the bank account before wife Donna discovers the missing money.

Sneaky Stacey in EastEnders (BBC1) is put out because secret lover Max has gone to Spain to look at property with wife Tanya. The chance to appear on A Place In The Sun was more attractive than another night of passion with Stacey.

So she seeks another outlet and happens upon hapless Deano Wicks, Deano is dead serious when Stacey comes on to him like a woman who hasn't eaten for a month. But is it enough to make her forget Max?