The Royal

Student nurse Samantha Beaumont makes quite an entrance, arriving in the middle of the night.

Porter Alun gets involved in a road accident with a suspected drunk driver.

After a traumatic journey, young doctor Jeff Goodwin arrives at the Royal to replace David.

Jeff raises eye-brows but ultimately wins the day by letting a holistic therapist cure a patient's back injury.

The porters persuade Harper to re-apply for his job following management re-organization and move him into a plush office

Television presenter Lennie Lemarr brings a film crew to the hospital for a special Christmas broadcast

Jill and Gordon decide to call it a day but when they try and tell people they seem to know already.

The police are called to the Royal after a man with a leg injury turns out to be one of two gun-men on the run

The fair comes to town and the fortune-teller reveals staff futures though Gordon now knows his own.

A group of drunken lads on a stag night arrive at the Royal.

Gordon is disturbed when he receives poison pen letters.

Gordon is angry that the police feel the need to investigate his wife's death.

Jeff's failure to spot post-natal depression in new mum Sheena almost ends in disaster.

Jeff discovers that he has a love rival for Samantha.