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Lives are changed for ever in an explosive soap first

A multi-car pile-up sees the worlds of Emmerdale and Coronation Street explosively collide for the first time in a special one-off episode. But not everyone will escape the wreckage alive…

7 JANUARY

10 JANUARY

Kick-starting Coronation Street and Emmerdale’s new ‘power hour’ schedule of half-hour weekday episodes, one-hour special Corriedale celebrates both soaps, with some of the cast from each drama caught