Baby TRAGEDY

Emmerdale stars Charlotte Bellamy and John Middleton won acclaim during Ashley’s dementia plot, but that wasn’t the first time their alter egos had struck tragedy. In 2008, Laurel and Ashley suffered a heartbreaking loss when their baby son Daniel was a victim of cot death. The stars acted their socks off – and there was more drama when it turned out Daniel had been switched at birth, meaning Laurel and Ashley had grieved for a son who wasn’t even theirs. It wasn’t all doom and gloom in the village, though – Val and Pollard finally got hitched, even after Val was kidnapped by the Dingles on the big day!