Thankfully no fictional characters were harmed in tonight's boat fire on the cobbles.

Peter Barlow, played by Chris Gascoyne, managed to pull his son, Simon to safety through the blaze.

He, himself then had to make a dramatic leap to safety, as the Lost Buoy went down in flames, having never made its maiden voyage with Peter at the helm - who has been sporting a Captain Haddock turtle neck of late.

But while he comes to terms with how close his son was to death, he is already pointing fingers - firmly at Abi.

Abi Franklin, played by Sally Carman, had planned to sail away with her lover to Greece, although we are not sure where from.

Sadly, Peter did not feel the same and they broke up, just hours before, leading him to believe it was a revenge attack.

But, things are never that simple in Corrie. And it is very possible she will be arrested and charged for arson, only for it to turn out it was someone else completely.

But who?

But who started the fire?
But who started the fire?

Later this week a furious Peter goes in search of Abi, but she angrily denies any part in the fire.

Peter refuses to believe her and asks his ex wife Carla Connor to check the CCTV from the factory.

When the police arrive to check the CCTV footage Sarah is surprised to see footage from the past few days has been deleted.

It seems the factory boss, who previously raised concern about Roy's sleepwalking, is covering for her close friend.

When Peter hears from Sally Metcalfe that CCTV footage has been deleted and Cathy confirms he saw Abi across town at the time the fire started, he decides Carla has some explaining to do.

He storms round to Roy’s flat and accuses his ex wife of setting fire to the boat. But Carla denies any involvement and her friend Roy leaps to her defence.

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Former sailor Peter had been stringing both women along after Carla bought Peter the boat for Christmas.

It looked like the recovering alcoholic and Carla were growing close again, but then drunken former drug addict Abi caught his eye and the pair enjoyed romps on his boat.

Abi fell hard for Peter and believed he wanted to sail off into the sunset with him, but it turned out he didn't feel the same way.

*Coronation Street is on ITV1 Friday at 7:30pm and 8:30pm