Moving On - Season 11

Joe is released from prison for a crime he says he didn't commit. With four months of his sentence remaining he receives a discharge grant of £46 and is driven to a hostel, where a security worker fits an electronic tag to his ankle.

It's a demeaning experience until he discovers that the tag is waterproof. For Joe - a former champion swimmer - the future suddenly seems a little brighter.

When he returns to his local swimming pool, where he was once a popular member, he soon attracts the attention of single mum Lisa. But his budding romance is jeopardised when he neglects to tell his new girlfriend about the prison tag - and his 7pm curfew…

Vicky is a blind woman about to undergo an operation to restore her sight after 20 years.Vicky's husband Barry and her daughter Janey reassure her that she's doing the right thing, and when Vicky's bandages are removed she sees shapes and colours for the first time in two decades. But her delight is tempered by dismay: from her clothes to her furniture to Barry himself, nothing - not least her husband - looks the way she remembered it.

When Vicky discovers that her role at work is only open to a disabled person, and her devoted guide dog is recalled to help another visually impaired person, the struggle to adjust becomes overwhelming. Has she been imagining a life she never had in the first place?

Josh Chambers is 53 years old. He was once a rugby league international, and every injury he sustained over his 20-year career has come back to haunt him. His back throbs, his shoulders ache, his knees creak.

But people love Josh: he's a local hero, a man of steel.

But his identity is threatened when his ex-wife Carol shows up on his doorstep, demanding he give her £5,000 in 48 hours to repay a debt that her new husband has run up in prison.

Josh, she insists, must sell his international caps - and if he doesn't, she will expose a secret that he has been hiding all his life…

Redundancy comes calling for Pauline who has worked for 20 years at a micro-electronics plant, looking after components which keep aircraft hanging safely in the skies.

Since her husband died and her daughter went travelling in Australia the job is Pauline's life, her colleagues are her family.

But when external ‘employment consultant' Robyn arrives at the plant, Pauline finds herself pitted against her young colleague and friend Alice - a financially vulnerable single mother.

If neither one takes up Robin's offer of voluntary redundancy, they will both be required to take a test to prove their worth to the company as a ‘continuing asset' - and there can only be one winner.

Will their mutual affection and camaraderie help them pass the test? And how much of Pauline's life and identity is rolled up in her job?

Jo is a bereaved mother who befriends a young homeless man, James - a ringer for her son, Michael, who died nine months before.

When Jo first encounters James, on a rare visit to the shops, she is struck by his likeness to her son, and offers to take him back to her house where she can give him a haircut and clean clothes.

As she tries to get to the bottom of his story, James opens up and she offers to put him up for the night. James, realising that Jo is still grieving deeply, takes full advantage of the situation.

But when Jo's husband Patrick finds out, he tells her to send James packing.

Against Patrick's wishes, Jo walks the streets looking for James, asking for help from the wider homeless community… but can James be trusted?