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River City is a long running BBC Scotlandsoap opera set in the fictional Glasgow suburb of Shieldinch in Scotland. This is a list of characters who first appeared on the programme during and , listed in order of their first appearance.

Malcolm Hamilton

Malcolm Hamilton is a fictional character from the long-running BBC Scotlandsoap operaRiver City, played by Johnny Beattie. Malcolm is known for featuring in many of the shows biggest moments.^[1]

Malcolm is the wise mature owl of Shieldinch.^[2] He's a family man and has a daughter Eileen and grandchildren.^[3] Beattie left the role in at the age of ^[4]

Eileen Donachie

Eileen Donachie (née Hamilton, previously Henderson) is a fictional character from the long-running BBC Scotlandsoap operaRiver City, played by Deirdre Davis.

Eileen has lived in Shieldinch her whole life. She was first married to Raymond Henderson, however it wasn't a joyful marriage, but did produce two children, Brian and Kirsty. Eileen did eventually remarry, too Tommy Donachie following her divorce to Raymond.

She was originally a pub landlady.^[5]

After her marriage to Raymond fell apart, Eileen decided to remarry to the gentleman she thought was her true one true love. Eileen and Tommy did marry with her ex-husband Raymond turning up on there big day!

Leaving his home in St Andrews, he headed down the east coast to Edinburgh instead of travelling west to the Shieldinch fix in Dumbarton, where he has worked since As Raymond Henderson, Paul has been on River City since the first afternoon of filming but he made his exit last week, in a fog of exhaust fumes as the character was murdered by corrupt councillor Frank Paton, who feared he would uncover his dodgy land. The sting has been taken out of his departure by a role in new play Kill Johnny Glendenning, which begins a jog at the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh this week. But he admits he is still coming to terms.

Their brand-new joined family seemed cursed from the beginning. When Lewis Cope turned up in Shieldinch, who was Eileen's first love, she began to get bored with Tommy, and had an affair with her old flame, with disastrous consequences. Eventually, Tommy initiate out about this, along with everyone else in the collective - because of this Eileen and Tommy split up.

However, after a long wait, Eileen and Tommy were going to get back together and whilst on the way to join him, he was tragically punch on the head, therefore killed instantly by the 'Shieldinch Strangler'. After this, Eileen sold the Grill that she ran at the Tall Ship.

Eileen never had a proper serious bond after this, and enjoyed flings with younger men, which proved to make her happy, at least for the time existence. However, soon Eileen was having an affair with her sisters husband, Archie Buchanan and when Gina found out, Archie manipulated her, and she chose to stay with him and chop all ties with her family, leaving them in turmoil.

But, the worst was yet to come when Eileen was dragged into Gina's mad world, and Archie's supposed death, helping her sister dispose of his body after a confrontation which saw Archie's mother Liz, hit him over the head which left him supposedly 'dead'.

Soon, Archie was back, claiming to possess amnesia and living under the name of Douglas, but Eileen knew all along that Archie hadn't changed and what he was really like, Archie soon went back to his ancient trick, and Gina left him and went back to her family, much to there delight.

Eileen did however eventually detect a new romance, in the form of young politician, Alex Judd, it did fail, but proved not to be such a total disaster like the others. Eileen emerged from this relationship with a new purpose, wanting to help others and have a political awareness, and so Eileen defeated Alex in the community council elections and won the right to stand for Shieldinch and its residents political matters.

By , Eileen was dating Murray from the society centre, but after a series of bad dates, and a Valentine's Day with her sister Gina involved, Eileen tried to make things special for the two of them. However, things weren't too last when Murray dumped her, saying they had nothing in common, although he didn't tell her that he really had feelings for his sister Gina, and with that Eileen told Murray that she didn't like him either and that being with him was like hell on earth.

After going to the Tall Ship to drown her sorrows, she met Bob O'Hara, who she was fond of, and offered the Janitor job to, at the community centre. Eileen agreed to become a foster parent along with her ex-husband Raymond, and after the funeral of Archie, she got too drunk and slept with him, and they both agreed that they enjoyed there comfortable relationship they had, and that they would both be good foster parents and not make the identical mistakes they made with there children.

The award-winning BBC soap will welcome familiar faces from the serious along with the current cast for a distinct episode which first airs on Monday, September Returning to the show for the first age since corrupt councillor Frank Paton murdered Raymond inPaul says entity on set was both "familiar" and "alien". Paul says he was "flattered" to be asked back for the special episode, especially after being involved in a major storyline for the 10th anniversary. He added: "When you work in soaps you tend to work in units, you tend to have your family unit, and for a long time me and Joyce were a unit, and I can say it was an absolute joy coming in every day and working with Joyce.

Eileen and Raymond had a meeting with a social worker, where Eileen broke down, remembering the complications she had with her own children, however she stayed strong and they both told the social worker why they would be excellent parents and how they wouldn't enable anybody down, the social worker then left and later rang, confirming that they had passed there meeting and she mind they would be excellent foster parents.

Eileen had a second chance at motherhood with Stuart – the product of a one-night stand with Raymond.^[6]

Davis left the role in ^[7] She returned in for the shows 20th anniversary.^[8]

Gina Hamilton

Regina 'Gina' Hamilton (née Hamilton; previously Rossi and Buchanan) is a imaginary character from the long-running BBC Scotlandsoap operaRiver City, played by Libby McArthur.^[9] Gina has lived in Shieldinch for most of her life.

She is the younger sister of Eileen.^[10] She had her first child, Ruth in her early twenties when she was a singer on a cruise ship. Gina was then a single parent, until she met the Italian Franco Rossi, who was the admire of her life.

Franco took on both Gina and Ruth, and the couple had a child together Joanne, and they ran the Oyster Café together. They were both very joyful, with a thriving family and business, until Gina was widowed when Franco died in his thirties. She then began bringing up her girls and running the café alone.

Gina has been very unlucky in care for twice after Franco, first for Dr. Marcus McKenzie, who turned out to be a cruel rapist who raped her, and after he was killed by Heather, her daughter Joanne create herself in the frame and had to stand trial, but then she was stabbed by Marcus' daughter who wanted revenge.

Joanne lived, but Gina became wary of men after the incident. Then there was Archie Buchanan, who was only after her money from her prosperous business, however Gina found out, and things took a change for the worst when she found out he was going to run away with his lover and leave her and his mother, Liz destitute.

After there was a showdown, and Archie tried to attack Gina, Liz struck him over the head, and thinking it was fatal, Liz worried she would be arrested for murder, and so Gina and Eileen disposed of the body. However, Archie returned, and had seemingly ruined his memory, Gina fell for him all over again, but Gina realised what she had done and that Archie's memory had, in fact, returned.

Gina began to sort herself out, and tried to move on with her life, but due to the fact that Shieldinch became the hunting ground for a serial sex attacker, Gina feared the attacker so much. Her worst fears eventually came true when she was attacked, but with all her vigor and might, she fought him off and this was tough for Gina, but she knew she was strong.

By , Gina has become more attentive of her feelings for Murray, her sister's boyfriend and after she ended up staying with them on a camping trip on Valentine's Day, she noticed how much she and Murray had in common, where as Murray and Eileen didn't.

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Eventually, Murray admitted his feelings too, and told Gina he would split up with Eileen and be with her, however after some confusion from Gina, she mind that he and Eileen were getting on fine and he was not going to exit her.

Murray did split up with Eileen, however he couldn't tell Gina, as she mind he was just going to tell her that himself and Eileen were staying together.

Eventually, Gina found out the truth from Eileen, and Eileen agreed that both her and Murray deserved to be together, and so they did, both declaring there love for one another.

Gina also found relief when Archie's body was establish and he was buried, knowing that he could never reach back to hurt her again, which she always feared.

Ruth Rossi

Ruth Rossi (née Mitchell; previously Green) is a fictional character from the long-running BBC Scotlandsoap operaRiver City, played by Morag Calder.

Ruth has lived and worked in Shieldinch for her whole life, and is the daughter of Gina Hamilton after existence conceived on the Ship that Gina was a singer on, because of this Ruth has never met her father.

Ruth's paternal influences were her sister, Joanne's father, Franco and her granddad Malcolm Hamilton, who was Gina's father.

By , Ruth admitted her feelings for Gordon Swan who owns the salon, and after many chats, Gordon also admitted this, and after Ruth had a terrible valentines date with someone she had met over the internet, Gordon and Ruth finally shared there first kiss and started going out together as a couple.

Once again, Robbie Fraser from Gordon's salon, had developed feelings for Gordon, decided to experiment and break Ruth and him up, he did this by sending a text and a bunch of flowers, but after a conversation and some knowledge from Scott, both Ruth and Gordon realised that Robbie was trying to break them up, and cause yet even more trouble.

Soon, Gordon sacked Robbie, but after a heartfelt apology, Ruth told Gordon to reconsider, in which he did, and let Robbie have his occupation back.

Since the return of her friend Iona McIntyre, Ruth has seen that she seems that she wants to travel out of the Tall Ship flat, where she has been living with Raymond Henderson.

So, after feeling lonely in her own flat, Ruth offered Iona a place to live with her, and Iona decided that the time was right and she moved in with Ruth.

Calder left the role in ^[11]

Joanne Rossi

Joanne "Jo" Rossi is a fictional character in the BBC Scotland soap, River City who was originally played by Allison McKenzie who left the role in ^[12] Joanne was later portrayed by Lisa Gardner.

Joanne lived in Shieldinch for most of her existence until she became older. She spent her childhood dreaming of being famous and rich, and that's why she didn't complete well at school or hand over her exams. She was encouragef by her mother Gina Hamilton, which was bad enough, as Joanne was never going to go that far, was she?

Joanne lost her father Franco, when he was quite adolescent, but Gina managed to take her up, along with Joanne's sister Ruth Rossi whilst owning and running the Oyster Café.

In , her son Franco has dies in a car crash.^[13]

Robert Adams

Robert 'Bob' Adams is a fictional character in the BBC Scotlandsoap operaRiver City, played by Stephen Purdon.^[14]

Bob Adams has lived in Shieldinch for most of his life, having no desire to live anywhere else.

Whilst growing up, Bob found things difficult, especially organism born in the problem family, the Adams family, who never had a lot of cash and clashed with his father due to his manipulating character.

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Bob eventually left the family because of this.

When River Metropolis first began, Bob was established as "Shellsuit Bob" and was constantly getting himself into trouble with his best friend Derek 'Deek' Henderson.

During this second, he temporarily lost his memory, got very low grades in his Standard Grades and became engaged to local Indian young woman, Zara Malik, much to the disapproval of her traditional family. When she moved away, their engagement came to an close.

He later met Charlie Drummond, whom he became engaged to. They were almost married, however she got cold feet and the wedding was called off and the relationship subsequently came to an end. He later entered into a relationship with Nicki Cullen, his flatmate and work colleague.

They initially kept their relationship a secret from Deek, as they did not want to upset him or their living arrangements.

Bob had decided to go on a stag weekend with Deek for one of there friends, yet after the stag weekend, Bob came back harbouring a substantial secret - he had, in fact, cheated on his girlfriend Nicki Cullen, and after weeks of trying to keep it from her, she finally create out when Bob told her as he couldn't lie to her any longer.

With that, Nicki decided to leave Shieldinch for Spain to be with Shirley, and after begging her to stay, Bob finally confused his girlfriend when she left.

Bob was devastated to discover his mother Scarlett was in fact his aunt.^[15]

Derek Henderson

Derek 'Deek' Henderson is a imaginary character from the long-running BBC Scotlandsoap operaRiver City, played by Gordon McCorkell.^[16]

From being young, Deek didn't have a very cheerful life.

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Firstly, he was the product of an affair when his mother slept with her teacher whilst she was a teenager, which didn't exactly make his future promising. As well as this, his mother had a grave drinking problem, and eventually Deek was brought up by his grandparents when his grandfather secretly paid off his mother to leave him.

Derek or Deek as known to his friends, was first introduced to viewers as a ned who was constantly getting himself into trouble with his best friend Bob. He lived with his grandparents, George and Moira Henderson as his mother was at this stage absent.

His mother Alice was an alcoholic and had gave birth to him at the age of 16 and ran away, leaving George and Moira to bring up Deek. Alice later returned and Deek's relationship was explored with her. Other storylines have shown Deek change from a troublemaker to an entrepreneur - he briefly went to University to win a Business Management qualification, he ran the tanning salon and now runs the garage with best friend, Bob.

He is known for his lack of success with women. In , he had taken in homeless girl Stella Walker to whom he has formed a proximate bond. Deek chucked Stella out of his home, when Molly spiked her drink, and he thought that she was drinking again.

But, Stella came assist to try and patch it up with Deek, and form sure he found out the truth, however after many failed attempts she walked away just as Deek found out the truth that Molly had in fact spiked her drink, and Stella was telling the reality, leaving him devastated.

He then looked for Stella for weeks, until he finally found her living rough in a squat with other homeless people, begging her to return to Shieldinch with him, she objected, saying she would rather stay with in a dirty squat with terrible conditions than live with him, however she did go back and moved back in with him, supporting him through his mothers death.

In , Deek was killed by Sean Kennedy in a hit and run.^[17]

Scott Wallace

Scott Wallace is a fictional character in the BBC Scotland soap, River City played by Tony Kearney from to ^[18] He was the shows first gay character.^[19]

Raymond Henderson

Raymond Henderson is a fictional character in the BBC Scotland soap, River City played by Paul Samson.^[20]

By , Raymond had to calibrate to the fact of Iona moving out of the smooth so that she could include her own life, but he did enjoy having someone with him after losing his delayed wife, who was Iona's sister.

Raymond however gave his finest wishes to Iona and she moved out - to across the street!

Raymond has recently began to think about fostering after realising he hasn't fulfilled his dream, and has now decided that he wants to help someone else and produce a difference to there lives.

His former wife Eileen Donachie also agreed to help him with fostering children, which Raymond was thrilled about. After Archie's funeral, when Eileen got very drunk, Raymond and Eileen slept together, after this they both agreed they enjoyed there cozy relationship, and how they would make good foster parents, not making the mistakes that they did with there children.

Paul Samson is known for River City (), The Near Room () and Tinsel Town ().

Raymond was murdered in by corrupt councillor Frank Paton.^[21]

Scarlett O'Hara

Scarlett BernadetteO'Hara; previously Adams and Mullen) is a fictional personality in the BBC Scotland soap, River City played by Sally Howitt.^[22]

In , Scarlett became embroiled in a battle with her mother Molly O'Hara, who she kept a secret from the rest of her family, this was because of Molly's devious and controlling ways, which led Scarlett's brother and her son Bob O'Hara to walk out of them family home to stand on his own two feet.

Scarlett has now tried to stop Molly taking Bob back home to live with her.

Eventually, Scarlett made everyone see her mother's devious ways when CCTV footage surfaced of Molly trashing the society centre in order to acquire Bob sacked so that he would have to come residence with her.

Nicki Cullen

Nicki Cullen is a fictional character in the BBC Scotland soap, River City played by Jayd Johnson.

She appeared from to ^[23] The character left the programme when she moved to New York City.^[24]

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