Elsa Gates Elsa Gates was played by Delena Kidd from episode one in March 1997 until 1998. She is married to Jack and is the mother of Annie Hart and the grandmother of Duncan, Holly, Melanie and Jamie Hart. Elsa is very prim and conservative, and struggled to accept the lifestyle choices of some of her grandchildren, like Duncan's promiscuity and Holly's bisexuality. In 1998, she is involved in a car accident after Jack drives them home while drunk. Elsa is knocked unconscious and Jack makes it look like she was driving the car that night. When her memory starts to return, he suffocates her and then commits suicide. Jack Gates Jack is Elsa's husband and Annie's father. He has a long running affair with Maria Simons, which is eventually discovered. After crashing his car while drunk he moves his unconscious wife's body into the driving seat to pretend she was driving while she recovers from memory loss. A few weeks later her memory returns, and Jack murders her before committing suicide. As a final act of vengeance against his now-estranged family, he re-writes his will and leaves everything to Pete Callan. Yasmin Green Yasmin Green (née McHugh, previously Matthews and MacKenzie) was played by Ebony Thomas from December 1998 until the end of the series in December 2005. Yasmin first appeared in December 1998, with her younger brother Benji (Junior Laniyan/Mark McClean) and their mother, Dusty (Doreen Ingleton) who ran the local newsagents on Stanley Street. Yasmin was a rebellious teenager who never really settled down at school and was constantly partying much to her mother's despair. In January 1999, Yasmin became involved with aspiring musician Josh Matthews (Terry Burns). The couple later became engaged and were married the week before Christmas 1999. They went to Jamaica for their honeymoon and returned very much in love. Things were rosy until Josh became bored with married life and started an affair with Julie-Ann Jones (Chloe Howman), the daughter of Black Swann owner Pete Callan (David Easter) and eventually left Yasmin to move to Greece with Julie-Ann in March 2000, breaking Yasmin's heart. Josh returned to Charnham months later, and was upset to discover that Yasmin had moved on with his best friend Declan Byrne (Quentin Jones). Despite this, Josh pursued Yasmin and the two reconciled. It was not long before Josh cheated again, this time with Julie-Ann's sister, Siobhan (Jemma