Tony

Tony's a smart kid. So smart he believes that he can get his best mate Sid laid... and make a profit.

Cassie

Cassie's family and friends are too wrapped up in their own worlds to notice that she's not eating - but there is someone who cares.

Jal

How can Jal come within an ace of winning the Young Musician of the Year competition in the face of total indifference of all those around her?

Chris

Happy-go-lucky party animal Chris wakes up one morning to find his mum's gone away for a few days and left him a grand. But what do you do after you've thrown a party to end all parties and blown all the money?

Sid

Sid's in trouble. Deep trouble. His coursework hasn't made the grade, he's grounded, and as sexually frustrated as ever. Will Sid buckle down and focus on his future or will he continue to be hypnotized by his best friend's girlfriend?

Maxxie and Anwar

What happens when two friends suddenly run up against the limits of their friendship? Maxxie and Anwar are about to find out.

Michelle

Time's up for Tony. His girlfriend Michelle just isn't going to take it anymore. Nor is she going to take her mum's latest husband Malcolm; toy boy, business failure and serial idiot to boot.

Effy

Has nobody noticed that Effy, Tony's little sister, never utters a word? Has nobody ever noticed that she sneaks out at night? Tony has. And Tony doesn't care about anybody or anything - except his little sister.

Everyone

It's taken quite a lot of time and effort for everyone to fall out with each other. But they've worked at it and they certainly aren't in the mood for apologies. Anwar's crazy birthday party offers a chance for scores to be settled.

Tony and Maxxie

Maxxie is looking after Tony, but he has his own problems. He desperately wants to leave college and follow his dream to become a dancer, but his dad is giving him hell about it.

Sketch

Maxxie has a creepy feeling that someone is watching him. Someone close by. A hot boy maybe? No such luck! Sketch is Maxxie's stalker. She's prepared to do anything to get her man, and if she can't have him, she's going to make sure nobody can.

Sid

Sid hasn't coped at all well with the fact that his best friend Tony is a shadow of the man he was and that Cassie has moved away to Scotland, where as far as he can tell, she is having the time of her life.

Michelle

Michelle's mum has gone and done it again - another new husband. Before Michelle knows what's happening, her manipulative new step sister Scarlett is invading her life, co-opting her friends and offering unwanted advice.

Chris

It's been a long road full of tribulations, drugs, petty theft, non attendance and resounding failure for Chris at college. So when the CCTV cameras catch him shagging Buck Tooth in the science corridor, the director calls time.

Tony

Tony's world is a strange one. Isolated and alone, he is desperate to find the way back to himself. He tries to act normal, but bumping into Sid and Michelle at a club sends him spiralling again.

Effy

Effy takes care of her depressed mom, tries to restore the relationship between Tony and Michelle, and mentors the new girl at school.

Jal

Jal has a secret so big, she can't tell anyone until she works out what to do about it. But as revision, music school auditions and needy best friends press down on her, the secret starts to leak out.

Cassie

What's the matter with Cassie? She's back together with Sid, Chris is on the mend, Michelle and Tony are back with each other and exams are finally over. But can Cassie be happy?

Final Goodbyes

It's the day of final report cards, and the friends decide not to look at their grades until they've said goodbye to Chris.

Everyone

It's the first day of the new term at Roundview College, and best friends Freddie, JJ and Cook's world collides with Effy's.

Cook

It's Cook's 17th birthday, and half the college have been invited to his Uncle Keith's pub to witness a night Cook believes will go down in history.

Thomas

Thomas arrives in the UK from Congo alone. His family are due to join him in a few days - he must find somewhere for them to live so he moves into an abandoned flat on an estate.

Pandora

The first and only boy Pandora's ever fancied has been deported before she's got beyond first base. But her lovesickness has to take a backseat when the Jim/Anthea/Steve love triangle is blown open.

Freddie

Freddie's big sister Karen has reached the final of a TV talent show. Freddie is emotionally blackmailed into upholding the story she and her dad are spinning about their dead mother, all to look good in front of the cameras.

Naomi

Naomi thinks she's got her world worked out - but her super smart exterior hides the insecurities beneath, and when the student president elections are announced, it stirs her into questioning what she really wants.

JJ

Poor JJ. Everything's gone pear-shaped since Effy came between his two best friends and split apart his friendship group - but Emily proves to be a true friend in his hour of need.

Effy

Effy's lost her mojo. Mindless sex with Cook no longer satisfies her and things in the Stonem household are becoming intolerable.

Katie and Emily

Katie is too humiliated from the incident in the woods to leave the house. Lucky she's got Emily to bail her out.

Finale

Outlaws Cook and Effy are running wild, clinging to each other and blocking out the rest of the world by getting totally off their faces.

Thomas

Thomas experiences a life-changing event, causing him to question everything - his faith, his family and even his choice of friends.

Emily

Emily and Naomi are loved up and enjoying their extended summer of love together. The thorn in Emily's side is her family. Her mother is unable to accept Naomi as anything other than a bad influence, and is keen for Emily to go travelling alone.

Cook

Cook is in prison after what happened at the party. He's told by his lawyer that he has no choice but to plead guilty... but Cook isn't willing to accept responsibility.

Katie

Katie Fitch has a problem. Katie's family's bankrupt, and they've got nowhere to live. And under the strain of it all, Jenna and Rob seem to be headed for splitsville and James Fitch is scared.

Freddie

Freddie is loved up. Completely. He and Effy are enjoying their time together and carrying on their hedonistic ways with no thought of tomorrow.

JJ

JJ is in love. Lara Lloyd is sweet perfection and he's smitten. But JJ thinks she's way out of his league and lacks the courage to ask her out.

Effy

Effy has been in a psychiatric hospital recovering. After lots of sessions with her counsellor John Foster, he tells her she is ready to go back home.

Everyone

With A-level results in for most of the gang, thoughts about the past and the future are on their minds.

Franky

Loner Franky accidentally challenges Mini's position as Queen Bee. Mini plays the long game and Franky finds herself befriended by the girls.

Rich

Rich uses his taste in extreme music to keep the world, especially girls, at bay. When Alo finds Rich's perfect woman, Rich is forced to into pairing up with Grace to learn how to chat up girls.

Mini

Mini is under threat. When Grace brings Franky into the charity fashion show, Mini sacks them both, and re-imagines the show in her own image to cement her power.

Liv

Mini befriends the gang to isolate Liv. Liv takes off with a boy called Matty, and they take a day out of reality with no consequences or commitments.

Nick

Nick is the star of the school and seems to have everything - he's hot, he's the son of a proud father, and he's a rugby hero. But Matty's reappearance has unsettled him and old wounds are re-opened.

Alo

Sick of his constant partying and wild ways, Alo's parents take him out of college and get him to buckle down on the farm. Alo rebels and has a party that ruins the farm, hoping this will show his parents that they can't keep him trapped there.

Grace

Grace has always believed in fairytales and happy endings, but she is forced to face reality when Rich meets her father.

Everyone

It's the day of Rich and Grace's wedding and the fractured gang try and make it a happy day but they're at each other's throats.

Everyone

The gang are on a summer holiday in Morocco! The villa may be half finished, in the middle of nowhere and without running water, but they've found a load of weed under the floorboards so they don't care.

Rich

Professor David Blood has banned Rich from visiting Grace in hospital and it's killing him. Alo tries to keep Rich out of trouble with band practice, but Rich is committed to his love.

Alex

It's Alex Henley's first day at Roundview College, but he doesn't seem to be worried about fitting in or making new friends.

Franky

Franky is in a bad place - it's the week of her mock exams and she's unable to concentrate of her studies. Her friends are avoiding her, while Jeff and Geoff's attempts at parental support only succeed in making her feel smothered.

Mini

Mini's mum has a pervy new live-in boyfriend who Mini hates with a passion. To makes matters worse, Alo has broken the rules of their no-strings-attached secret relationship and declared his love for her.

Nick

Nick is desperately in love with Franky, but it's a one-way street. He has no choice but to accept Franky as his friend and nothing more, but his love for her grows with each passing day.

Alo

Alo still has no idea that Mini is carrying his baby. Fed up of trying to get back to the fun times they used to have, he attempts to get over Mini by hooking up with a new girl, Poppy Champion.

Liv

Alone and forced to face up to the choices she's made, Liv discovers that she's not as strong as she thought she was.

Mini and Franky

Mini and Franky have been hiding from the world in Mini's house for several weeks. Mini's bump is now too pronounced to hide, while Franky is avoiding Nick and doing her best to delay the inevitable moment when he realises his brother is back.

Finale

It's the end of an era. Everyone's futures hang in the balance as Franky struggles to confront her past.

Fire (1)

Working as an assistant at a hedge fund in the city, Effy becomes increasingly addicted to status. The risks she takes to get ahead become more and more extreme.

Fire (2)

Effy's glamorous life begins to unravel as her company faces financial difficulties and her friend Naomi embarks on a grueling treatment plan.

Pure (1)

Cassie has returned from the USA, alone. As she negotiates a solitary new life in London, she finds friendship in unexpected places.

Pure (2)

Cassie's strange new relationship is put to the test when she lets someone else take her picture.

Rise (1)

Working as a drug dealer and gangster run-around, Cook finds himself in hot water after his boss asks a favour of him.

Rise (2)

Cook gets more than he bargained for from the women in his life. They have varying expectations of him but Cook rises to their challenges - to explosive effect.