List of Emmerdale characters introduced in 2005

[1] Max King, portrayed by Charlie Kemp, arrives in the village after backpacking with his girlfriend to attend his father's ill-fated wedding to Charity Dingle (Emma Atkins).

After having been bullied into poisoning the Briggs family's calves by Tom, a guilty Max decides to leave the village, sick and tired of his father's chicanery.

Robert, who had driven off, turns his car round and drove straight at them, causing Max to grab the steering wheel and send the vehicle off the road, through a stone wall and onto its roof.

Andy makes a quick escape assisted by Robert, but Max becomes trapped in the car and is killed when fuel stored in the back explodes.

She made her most recent appearance at Jimmy King's (Nick Miles) ill-fated wedding to Kelly Windsor (Adele Silva) in October 2007.

It is very likely that Phyllis has passed away since 2007 as she hasn't attended any family events since, such as her favourite nephew, Carl King's (Tom Lister) wedding to Lexi Nicholls (Sally Oliver) in 2009, or his funeral after being murdered by Cameron Murray (Dominic Power) in 2012, or Jimmy King's (Nick Miles) wedding to Nicola De Souza (Nicola Wheeler) in 2010.

Libby and her sister Tamsin (Jenny Gleave) are first glimpsed on horseback by Andy and his younger brother Daz (Luke Tittensor).

[2] She told Mike Glendenning of the Manchester Evening News: "I hadn't been to one of these groups before but when I got on the scales and saw the reading, I decided there and then that I was never getting that big again.

"[2] Speaking her character Rita, Kearnery said "Paddy, who has just split from Emily, has a night out with Marlon and brings her back home.

She added: "I'd always watched Emmerdale so this was pretty big for me, sitting in The Woolpack with the cast and crew, but they're an awful humble and lovely bunch of people, very kind and welcoming and it was really nice to be able to work on it.

The following year, Rita returns when she bumps into Paddy, Marlon, Donna Windsor-Dingle (Verity Rushworth) and Toni Daggert (Kerry Stacey).

Paddy later takes Rita for a drink in the Woolpack and she gives her number but fails to write it down and it is smudged, so he is unable to call her.

When Hari Prasad (John Nayagam), Paddy's partner in the vet practice begins embezzling money from the company accounts, Rita notices it but thinks it is a mistake.

After Hari is remanded in custody and business suffers, Rita talks to Jasmine Thomas (Jenna-Louise Coleman) and asks her to print an article in The Hotten Courier to reassure people about the vets.

However, things backfire when Jasmine's boss, John McNally edits the article to point out the fraud and implicates Paddy.

At the getaway spot, Effie and Jean are nowhere to be found, but Sadie is there, and she forces Zoe to sell her Home Farm.

On 25 June 2005, it was announced that former Coronation Street actress Sally Ann Matthews would be joining Emmerdale as Sandra Briggs.

Series producer Kathleen Beedles revealed: "Her character Sandra will be caught in the crossfire as the Kings ruthlessly battle to secure the land they need for their housing development.

When Tom King (Ken Farrington) wants to buy their land, he sends his son Max (Charlie Kemp), a vet, to kill their livestock.

Sandra and Craig are furious with the Kings but are unable to tell the police for insurance reasons, so Max's boss Paddy Kirk (Dominic Brunt) takes the blame.

[7] Noreen Doreen Bell, played by former Upstairs, Downstairs actress, Jenny Tomasin is a cantankerous pensioner who irritates Val Pollard (Charlie Hardwick) when the latter is doing community service in late 2005.

Noreen lives on the far side of the village in Tall Trees Cottage, and wears a wig and fake eyebrows.

In her will, she left her money to Val and her thimble collection to her second cousin, Gilbert Duff, who was played by Christopher Beeny, who she co-starred in Upstairs, Downstairs with.