Moira Dingle (Natalie J Robb) faces an absolute nightmare in upcoming episodes of Emmerdale. The beloved character has been swimming in stressful situations as of late, and things aren’t getting any better.
It was the slurry leak orchestrated by John Sugden (Oliver Farnworth) that ultimately kicked things off for her and Butlers Farm. The contaminated liquid damaged a lot of farmland and also spilt into the main water supply. Everything got fixed – but Moira’s bank account was heavily impacted.
Mackenzie Boyd (Lawrence Robb), believing he was responsible for it, worked hard to try and find a way to help pay Moira’s bills. However, he – for some reason – thought the best idea would be growing and selling weed in one of the barns.
Moira caught Mackenzie and Ross Barton (Michael Parr), frustrated her little brother took a risk when the business was already struggling.
Next week, Joe Tate (Ned Porteous) heads to Butlers to talk about Kim Tate (Claire King) buying their land. Feeling smug, Joe heads back and tells Dawn Taylor (Olivia Bromley) that it seems like the plan is in motion.
Meanwhile, Moira tells Kyle (Huey Quinn) and Isaac (Bobby Dunsmuir) that they aren’t losing their home. Once Moira leaves, the lads hear a noise, and decide to head off to investigate.
In a barn, Kyle and Isaac spot two masked teenagers. One of them is April’s (Amelia Flanagan) friend Dylan (Fred Kettle) and, in a blind panic, Kyle accidentally stabs Dylan’s leg with a pitchfork.
Moira arrives and scares the boys away, while Cain (Jeff Hordley) solely blames Joe for the ordeal.
PC Swirling (Andy Moore) heads over to the farm but frustratingly, he can’t really do much.
With her livelihood at risk, Moira lashes out but accidentally hits Lydia (Karen Blick) instead of Joe. While Swirling wasn’t able to do anything about the lads in the barn, he can do something about this, and arrests Moira.
Things really aren’t looking good.
What does the future of Butlers Farm look like now?
‘She always has problems with the farm doesn’t she but it’s real life I suppose because it is tough for farmers out there’, star Natalie J Robb said.
‘Hopefully good things can come from it if she manages to keep it, good things can start, new ideas can be made to work on the farm, like a lot of farmers have had to adapt to doing like glamping sites and things like that. Hopefully things like that, that’s in my head, that would be nice.
‘But she is going through a tough time. It’s an interesting time as well because all of these stories are interlinked and it’s quite well done, and how people get it wrong and there’s little disasters everywhere.
‘It’s just sad that all these people are trying to get a piece of her, and there’s more people that are going to come into it with more threatening behaviours.’
