Craig Charles is moments away from keeping his piss in jars again, people. In case you blanked it out; Lyster/Lloyd the cabbie was suspended from Corrie a few years back for a wee crack habit he'd cultivated. Seemingly he spent about £5k on the stuff a week. He then smoked in the back of a hired car while looking at smut mags, and his home away from home (AKA his squat near the set of Corrie) was reportedly ittered with vessels of his own urine - namely in the bedroom. Very lazy behaviour.

Anyway, Corrie bosses ordered him to clean up his act if he wanted to keep his job. Craig the cabbie hasn't actually been doing too badly by all accounts, until recently that is. So, what did he do? Well, c'mere 'til I tell ye *scooches in*, himself and Steve McDonald (AKA Simon Gregson, who's only 34?!) went on the almighty batter last Friday in a village called Bowness, near Lake Windermere. Seemingly the pair spend a lot of time there when they're not filming as Simon "has a boat there" OooOooh, la-di-da between that and your Bently, Simon *progressively turns hue of green* 

According to The Mirror, a local in the Hole In The Wall pub, who was there around 7.00pm, said: "They always like a few drinks but they'd had quite a few before they even got here." They then reportedly moved on to another boozer at 8.00pm, and careened into The John Peel Inn an hour later. A regular said: "They shouldn't have been served because they were in a right state. It turned ugly just before 10pm when Charles started to get abusive with a customer. He threatened him and that's when they were chucked out."

One opportunist, called Keith, who recorded Craig's movements outside the pub, said: "He stumbled into the street and walked into the middle of the road. He was holding up the traffic waving his arms in the air. His friends had to hold him up because he was really unsteady on his feet. He looked like he was going to fall over. They looked quite embarrassed... The village was packed with couples enjoying the romantic atmosphere until he came and made a spectacle of himself. People were shocked because this isn't a lairy kind of place."

A Corrie source said "There have been a few alarm bells ringing with Craig. He's been spotted in the pub more than he should be. To be in such a state in public is not what the bosses will want to hear. There is only so much they will put up with." In fairness, they did push it with the whole granny love storyline. Funny how his onscreen tryst with Liz correlates with his dismount off the rails...

Isn't it gas how some people have misfortune thrust upon them, like co-stars Bill Roache and Kym Marsh, while others go out of their way to create their own?