HERE in Soapland we all like a drink, whether it’s a Babycham with a little umbrella in it or a glass of Merlot. But some are better than others at holding their drink.

Take Peter Barlow. He’s on the wagon, off the booze, a recovering alcoholic.

Alas, his recovery programme is two steps forward, one step back. Or it would be if he wasn’t confined to a wheelchair since the tram came crashing off the viaduct in Coronation Street (ITV1).

Coping with his addiction, his disability and being a newly-married man is proving too much, so there he is in the Rovers very nearly downing a drink – and it’s not a fizzy cola.

Nick is beside himself with joy. He wants Peter to start drinking again so he can run off with his wife, Leanne. She married Peter while he was lying critically ill in a hospital bed. She thought she was being asked to empty his bedpan, said “I will” and found herself Mrs Barlow.

When Ciaran sees Peter about to slip off the wagon, he steps in. But he can’t stop Peter going home and searching for drink. But, oh dear, who’s that lad in the corner? It’s Peter’s irritating little son Simon and he’s seen his dad with a drink in his hand. Will he tell?

Also in a wheelchair is Jackson in Emmerdale (ITV) after that encounter with a train. Now he’s worried that he’s cramping boyfriend Aaron’s style and pushes him away in an effort to force him to find someone else.

Things look up when Aaron gives Jackson a physiotherapy massage (as opposed to a £100-an-hour massage in a backstreet in Soho) and the two feel closer together.

In EastEnders (BBC1) Tamwar Masoon’s love life is the problem. He has a nice girlfriend, Afia, but unfortunately his parents have banned him from seeing her. Something to do with her father having been married to his mother and trying to kill her.

So Tamwar’s stepping out with Afia secretly, when he’s not running the Argee Bhajee. That’s an Indian restaurant, by the way, not an East End dance.