Coronation Street fans were left 'terrified' by a horrifying scene at the start of tonight's double bill. The soap started with struggling new Gemma Winter waking in the early hours, taking her baby son Aled downstairs to the kitchen, then appearing to put him in the washing machine and switching it on.
It quickly became apparent that it was a disturbing dream when the sound of the washing machine buttons merged with Gemma's alarm clock.
When she woke up in distress to find her son missing from his cot, she raced downstairs to find her partner Chesney Brown holding the baby, and Aled was fine. "Well that was a strange start to the show," tweeted one fan. "Oh god I thought that actually happened then...TERRIFIED ME," said another. "That