In pictures: 20 years of Brookside

Channel 4 soap Brookside is to be axed from its prime-time evening slot, 20 years after it first appeared on TV screens.

BBC News Online looks back on the storylines over two decades of the Liverpool-based soap.

When the soap began in November 1982, as part of Channel 4's opening line-up, it was praised for breaking new ground.

Viewers complained when Terry Sullivan's wife Sue and baby Dan were pushed to their death from scaffolding

Jimmy Corkhill has been a drug dealer, a failed teacher, seen his marriage break-up and has had a mental breakdown

Beth Jordache's on -screen lesbian kiss with Margaret was perhaps Brookside's most remembered moment

In 1995 battered wife Mandy Jordache knifed her husband Trevor to death and buried him under the patio

Mother and daughter were jailed for murder - Beth died in prison before the campaign to free her succeeded

When Lyndsey Corkill and then her mother came out as lesbian, viewers complained storylines were too sensational

What next for Brookside Close? - the 20th anniversary edition is on 2 November after it has moved to a single weekly episode