Okay, so I stopped reading right before everything went crazy with the big announcement, and it's taken two days of reading to catch up through five days of your posts!
And now those articles in the DM and Sun. The DM one was clearly compiled from sending a reporter to read the social media and also this forum. And the Sun says they have some info that may or may not be relevant but they're not telling anyone what it is...that's helpful.
I feel terrible for April. She's in a very difficult situation already, and now she has social media and forums discussing her relationship with Corrie and her pregnancy. Corrie's family kept quiet about her to protect her, and now that's led to some feeling "what else might be being covered up that could possibly be relevant to Corrie's state of mind at the time of his disappearance?" Which is a valid question, but a great shame that it might now be phrased more as an accusation.
I think the family have been as open as they felt they could be. I don't believe Corrie's relationship with April was a great secret (if the guys from base called her to let her know C was missing, then she's not been hidden from them). If she found out she was pregnant just a few weeks into the disappearance, then it's understandable to me that she wouldn't want to be the subject of a full-page DM or Sun story about Corrie's private life. On the statement Nicola made that's been put on the FindCorrie website, Nicola has said that technically Corrie was/is single (not married). I think that from Nicola's perspective that Corrie was single, he was happy (and currently happily single and seeing April, which made him happy) and he had used dating sites (which was how he met April). So to Nicola it would have been a white lie out of protection of April, rather than a great big whopper.
I noticed when looking at the baby scan that Corrie's forehead is the only one of the three boys who has the Wringe forehead (Uncle Tony's forehead) .... I think the baby is going to have that forehead. It might be completely irrelevant but Corrie favours Uncle Tony in looks, and he seems to have recently taken to emulating Uncle Tony's clothing style. The boy on those YT videos is really growing up and maturing in a lot of ways. And at the same time, Corrie's found a nice girl and they've gone in the past five months from being casual dating friends to being something more, but they're still both very young and only a few months into this deeper, closer, part of their relationship.
I've read with interest the links about missing people, but I haven't processed it enough to consider whether it might have relevance to Corrie's disappearance. It still seems to me that Corrie has a lot of good things going on in his life, plans for the near future, and plenty of options of people he could 'run to' if he wanted to 'run away' -- which is effectively what those missing people stories were about, people running away. Knowing that Corrie has a steady girlfriend seems like just another reason for Corrie to not 'run away'. Seeing his style maturing gives me the impression that a surprise pregnancy might mean he's going to react by manning-up and being a dad, just like all the people he looks up to in his life ... his parents, his grandparents, his uncle whose style he seems to be emulating. I found it very sad the way one of those 'newspaper' articles made it sound like April was just one of a dozen girls that Corrie was seeing and she'd got pregnant that way...I don't think that's what April was trying to say in her interviews. And she must have strong feelings for him if she couldn't stay on holiday knowing he'd gone missing...she wanted to be back home in case his body turned up in one of those roadside searches.
I would take with a pinch of salt the article that said Corrie was drinking before going out that night. I think it was erroneous conflation of some of the earlier reports of Corrie drinking before he went out, and has now been corrected to drinking in his car when he was already in BSE. In some ways those articles may be a hindrance rather than a help as they may end up fixing errors or misperceptions by being put in print. Corrie's a human being, and neither he nor his family or relationships deserve to be fodder for tabloids.