Laurel Thomas is going to be left terrified next week when she realises her children are missing.
The factory worker panics when she realises she can’t find Arthur and his friends and runs into The Woolpack desperate to get the word out.
Going into the pub, Laurel asked her nemesis Brenda Walker about whether the children had been in there.
Insisting she was trying to remain calm while Nicola lost the plot and began insulting everyone who was attempting to help.
Playing down the fact she had literally lost her and Brenda’s children, Laurel tried to insist it was a temporary blip.
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“Temporarily mislaid Angelica, Arthur, Cathy, Heath…” she told a shocked Brenda who remained surprisingly level-headed.
“Have you tried the woods?” Brenda offered.
“Cathy and Heath have been obsessed since they went camping.
“On about spooky noises and ghosts in a hut or something.”
And while Nicola and Laurel began to relax and went to find their children, killer Lachlan White had overheard the conversation and began panicking himself.
The deranged beer maker has his aunt Rebecca chained up in a cabin in the woods after he kidnapped her when she discovered him trying to kill Robert Sugden and Liv Flaherty.
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He has had her locked up while he tries to find a way to get her out of the country with baby Seb.
But if she is found then the whole truth about his vile murders will come out and he will be exposed and lose Belle Dingle forever.
Lachlan faces a race against time to get to the cabin and move Rebecca before the children find her and raise the alarm, but will he be able to do it?
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