Cue – Coronation street is one of the most watched soaps in the country, which gets around 12million views per episode. Most of their audiences are between 15-20 year olds which is the most impressionable age group who are most prone to sensitive topics.

At the beginning of February, a storyline on the soap came out which included a 16-year-old getting sexually involved with a man who is 42 years old.