CHARITY begins at home, usually in the bedroom. Charity Tate has always been one to spread her favours liberally among the menfolk (and the occasional woman) of Emmerdale (ITV1).

Now she and partner-in-crime Cain Dingle have a new scam – stealing posh cars and selling them. The thrill of the getaway is followed by the thrill of counting the cash they make.

But she really shouldn’t have stolen businessman Declan Macey’s flash motor. She and Cain drive away his Porsche after he stops off at a hotel. An in-disguise Charity chats him up, distracting him from the vanishing of his car.

Oh imagine their horror when he walks into the Woolpack later.

For Declan is a business chum of sweet couple Jai and Nikhil. That’s sweet as in those things that rot your teeth – they own a sweet factory.

Charity panics and tries to put back the car before Declan notices.

But he catches with her hands on the steering wheel and threatens to call the cops unless she goes on a date with him.

As chat-up lines go, this is original although the mention of handcuffs may have been the clincher as far as she’s concerned.

She’s used them in her line of business before.

More kiss-kiss bang-bang as Aaron locks lips with new boyfriend Jackson. After a few dates, Aaron feels less confused about his sexuality and decides to take the relationship a stage further. Alas, the first kiss is witnessed by Danny, whom you may remember Aaron tried to snog while trying to decide whether he liked boys or girls. The arrival of spring seems to have set everyone in Soapland kissing. Over in Walford, Christian soldiers on with Syed. This is another confusing gay romance, made even more tangled by Syed getting married to Amira in EastEnders (BBC1).

Now Amira is asking Christian advice on how to get her husband interested in the bed department as he never wants to make lurve to her. Amazingly, Christian gives her some tips on seducing her husband/his lover.

This doesn’t end in tears but in bed. Syed, after succumbing to Amira’s come-on, has a row with Christian but one things leads to another and leads to bed.

Christian is on top of the world (as well as Syed) but as observers of Soapland’s sexual adventures realise this will end in tears – and probably a punch-up in the Vic.

Ronnie Mitchell goes to visit sometime lover Jack Branning in hospital – he took the bullet meant for Silly Billie, remember? – and finds romance. Not with paralysed Jack but his snoggable doctor. His bedside manner must be good.

And while we’re on the subject of kissing (and there’s no escaping it this week) there’s some shock snogging in Coronation Street (ITV1). Sian Powers is left speechless, mainly because best pal Sophie Webster is puckering up to her. A declaration of love can’t be far behind. I blame all those fish fingers that Sophie’s mum Silly Sally force fed her as a child.

Over at the garage Kevin Webster is still worrying about mistress Good Golly Miss Molly’s pregnancy. He tells her to have a termination after Molly’s gullible husband and car mechanic Tyrone puts a spanner in the works by asking Kevin to be the unborn child’s godfather.

Talking of children, Becky and Steve McDonald get a shock when they go to an adoption meeting.

They meet their neighbours Eddie and Anna Windy-ass. As long as the McDonalds don’t consider adopting Eddie they’ll be all right.