[Charlie_Bubble]

I think they've done quite a good job of this storyline. They've managed to show a predatory paedophile at work. They've shown how they start exploiting young girls with the Lauren storyline. They've also shown how they end relationships with girls when the girl grows up too much and begins to become a woman with the Whitney storyline. They've managed to show how the girls often don't even realise it's happening and think it's a normal boy - girl relationship and if anything, blame themselves later.

They've also hopefully thrown out some people's misconceptions that all paedophiles must be dirty old men in macs that hang around schools looking for victims. This one was a young, good looking bloke who zeroed in on a vulnerable single mother to move in on her daughter.

We all know that young people identify a lot more with people from soaps and bands etc, than they do with teachers, social workers, politicians and if just one girl has managed to realise from these storylines that she is in an abusive relationship like this, then it's been worth it. May also make some single mothers a bit more wary of letting the wrong person into their life.