So, will helen be pregnant ?

[MaryAnnSingleton]

I do hope not -though if she isn't she'll be almost as intolerable as if she is...

Surely major plotline brewing is to do with Helen and Ian. Someone hinted at it earlier... Agree Jenny and Paul is possible affair, but much welcome is return of Matt, the Van Hoogstraaten of Ambridge!

Also, other possible plotline is obviously major rivalry over these flat conversions...

Oh no DuffyMoon!! Is that true?

I reckon Ian will die and Helen will have his posthumous baby using sperm that he had tucked away at the bottom of the chest freezer in the Grey Gables kitchen.

Then moany Helen and heartbroken Adam can move in together to raise the poor infant.

Either that or Jazzer will run over Flash Harry with the milk cart.

it was from the BBC statements of programmes policy via the Archers website

"On Radio 4, next January will see the The Archers turn 60, with a thrilling storyline under close wraps that will shake Ambridge to the core"

I reckon Vikki's going to be pregnant but with Tom's baby

LB That could be a winner all round. Vikki will be distracted away from the calves so Ed will be happy. She'll probably cook for Tom so he'll be happy, Brenda will be freed from cooking for the week, leaving her more time for work ironing so she'll be pleased. It has possibilities

Yes yes LB and zebra! Then Brenda and Helen can fall in lurve! Perfect.

"next January will see the The Archers turn 60, with a thrilling storyline under close wraps that will shake Ambridge to the core"

what could it be?

I'm still waiting for Judes wife to turn up, but that wouldn't be a 'shake ambridge to its core' thing... Peep running away (i mean properly, not jsut going to stay with her pervy bloke)?

i don't think the prospective bidding war over said edwardian house between Brian and Matt is going to be a part of it though.

Trying to think of things that they haven't already done - fire, bankruptcy, adultery, relationship breakdown, death, ...

How about Jill goes and they discover that there was a mistake in drawing up the wills properly? So there is a bust-up, that lasts for generations, between the four siblings over inheritance?

(It's got to be better than another 'comedy' Grundy story)

"thrilling storyline under close wraps that will shake Ambridge to the core"

Helen has baby early and it cries. She can't cope because baby isn't loving her enough and tops it.
or
Jude is really Clive Horrobin who wreaks his revenge on ...
or
Any number of possible couplings involving Matt/Paul/Jenny/Lillian

And isn't Kate going to come back again and claim Pheebs?
And might something awful happen again at the village panto (is Owen still in prison?)

Surely Jack is going to die this year. And then maybe Peggy will marry Ted and/or change her will to benefit some charity that will annoy her children hoping to inherit?

OR Brian will die

its about time Jack popped his clogs, they were being sentimental about him today..must be ripe to shuffle his Ambridge coil

though i quite like the Kate as child-snatcher thought, given how she's previously been only too keen on being shot of them..

Brian can't die. he is an essential part of the cast, the dude we love to hate...

I have heard it rumoured that the big January shock storyline is going to be a murder.

Matt Tops Paul!!! Jealous Rage????

Pip tops Jude? cos he is a t*er!?

Helens baby commits matricide because she is soooooo irritating?

oooh a murder! Excellent....

Lillian pushes Jenny down the stairs of the high-ceilinged Edwardian?
or
The father of Helen's baby appears and she pops him into a giant batch of cheese to maintain total control over the sprog?
or
Hope Harry doesn't turn out to be a psycho and bump Fallon off - she's one of the only likeable females in the whole village!

OR

Helen miscarries, then kidnaps Brenda in the last stages of her pregnancy and steals the baby when it is born. Tom lets a herd of crazed pigs loose on Helen to trample her and retrieve his first-born. Cue veal and Helen pie all round.

"the big January shock storyline is going to be a murder"

Well, the murder will obv. be one of the scriptwriters, done in by an MNer
No shock there

Could it be that old 'aeroplane crashing on village' chestnut?

That'd shake 'em up a bit.

Maybe it will be Vickiiii topping Tom when she finds out his veal and ham pie. Or Susan pushing a display stand over on Vickiiiii because she can't follow her instruction sheet for the till.

I think actually it will involve Matt and Paul. Lillian will end up into Paul's arms because of Matt not involving her fully in the business and then Matt will kill him.

Or Jude will get Pip pregnant and David will kill him.

Soo it's bye bye to Sid then.

Will Jolene stay in Ambridge? Will Fallon take over the pub? And whatever happened to her music career?

I'll miss Sid - his struggle with homophobia matched an ex-boss of mine.

All this talk of a 2011 murder has really shaken me!How about 'gamekeepers daughter/Helins ex lodger' returns.Goes mad with jealousy over baby(as she aborted hers),kidnaps said baby and then murders it, and herself?

I'm loving HARRY....