Carla beats up Jimmy Dockerson

Carla's back and she doesn't waste any time getting down to business. Some of Alison King's first scenes after her maternity leave involve Robert Beck who plays Tony's henchman Jimmy. If you will recall, he's the one that ran down Liam and put the fear into Jed Stone as well. Carla confronted both men which led to her putting the pieces together about Liam's murder and Tony's part in it. Now she's back and she means business. In the course of filming the episode where Carla and Jimmy have a struggle, though, the actors got so into it that they fell off a table and Robert ended up with a sprained thumb and Alison got a few bruises, according to the Mirror! But we've also heard that Carla is going to be involved in a murder plot. Jimmy? Tony? Maria? or is that just the unravelling of Liam's murder and making it public? Stay tuned! It'll all unfold next month!

Where have I seen Tony Gordon's henchman before?

Queries are flooding in this morning asking where Corrie fans have seen Tony Gordon's Coronation Street henchman before. The actor is Robert Beck and fans of Brookside will remember him well. He's also Jane Danson's husband.

Read more about Robert Beck right here.

Jane Danson's husband joins Coronation Street

News reaches my delicate ears that Robert Beck, the husband of Jane Danson (she who plays Leanne Battersby), will join Coronation Street as hard man Jimmy Dockerson.

Now then, as well as being a huge Corrie fan I was also something of a Brookside nut. And Robert Beck played the part of Peter Harrison in Brookie, one of the most creepy soap characters I've ever come across. Seeing Robert turn up on the cobbles should be good and I'm looking forward to seeing him on screen.