ITV Emmerdale boss names three returning characters for 50th anniversary and favourite facing prison

Emmerdale is just two months from its 50th anniversary and viewers aren't going to know what has hit them if what the ITV soap has teased is anything to go by. The show was created by Kevin Laffan and was titled Emmerdale Farm when it was first broadcast in October 1972.

And in October, the Yorkshire soap will be celebrating five decades on-screen with a month of drama which will reach its climax during a special week of episodes bringing on October 16. Emmerdale has now revealed that a storm will be the cause of the life and death drama in the village later in the year.

"We have got, in true Emmerdale style, every story imaginable. We have got things that are going to make you laugh, make you cry, make you surprised and stunts that are going to rock your world," Jane Hudson, executive producer of Emmerdale, told the Manchester Evening News and other press.

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Sharing exactly what will be at the centre of the epic celebrations, Kate Brooks, Emmerdale's series producer, said: "As part of our big 50th week, although we are doing a month of celebrations, the big 50th week will focus on a massive storm that is going to rip through the village and leave a massive trail of destruction in its wake.

"Some of our best-loved villagers will be in peril and it's safe to say that literally, the village won't be the same after this and won't ever be the same again because the impact this storm has on people's lives is just massive."

As if that isn't enough, there will also be the return of three very familiar faces, with Kate telling is that Danny Miller, Amy Walsh and Elizabeth Estensen will all be reprising their roles as Aaron