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Coronation Street Monthly Update
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GAIL PLATT celebrated
her 50th birthday but on the day when she should have been eating
cake she was drowning her sorrows instead. Son David was jailed
for four months for smashing up the Street and breaking his mum’s
heart. Not one to let a small matter of her grandson being
imprisoned spoil a good party, Audrey invited a cast of thousands
to Gail’s birthday, put her best frock on and helped herself to
the gin. But there was a shock phone call for Audrey when Ted
Paige got in touch after 50 years. Ted wants to catch up after his
partner died and Audrey took this to mean his female partner, but
there’s more to Ted Paige than first meets Audrey’s eye. She tells
Rita that Ted had a twinkle in his eye that he never had before.
He had a tear in it too when Audrey told Ted that not only did he
have a 50 year old daughter but that he was a great-grandad too.
Meanwhile in prison,
David’s sharing a cell with a dodgy geezer who sings his way through
the day starting with a scary version of ‘How Much Is That Doggy In
The Window?’ and dispenses hardened words of wisdom: “Don’t sit on
any razor blades.” Ouch.
In the café, Jason found
out that Becky’s builder boyfriend Rick had a missus and a kid and
he warned Becky, who took the news in her stride and as only Becky
could. She pinned Rick to the floor of the caff and smeared him with
cream cake and tea. Atta-girl, Becks!
After the pizza place
burned down last month, Paul comes clean to granddad Jack about what
he’s done and it fair breaks Jack’s heart. “You are your father’s
son, all right,” he tells him, shocked. “I can’t even look at yer.
Get out.” The cops come to caution Leanne and Dan. “We’ve got
nothing to hide,” says Dan. “That’s what Crippen said,” butts in
Blanche. Paul storms round to see Leanne wearing that face that he
does, the one that makes him look like he’s just about to fart. He’s
furious when he finds out that the cops are taking no further action
against Leanne and Dan and storms out again, probably to pass wind.
The Peacocks succumb to
their very own consumer credit crunch this month. Apparently, this
two-income couple who have no mortgage as Fred left them his house
and who run the only butcher shop this side of Weatherfield are on
the brink of financial ruin. Claire tells Ashley they’ll have to
downsize their life and move to a smaller, cheaper, tattier house.
As luck would have it, Sally Webster has the small, cheap and tatty
house of Claire’s dreams and suggests doing a swap. But Sally’s
plans to get Kev to move to the Peacock’s house come a cropper when
he tells her he’s happy where he is and he doesn’t want to move. Ah
but he does, he just doesn’t know it yet. Men, eh?
Harry the bookie starts
chatting up Liz in the pub. He’s a flirt, is that Harry, and Liz is
tempted but may have some reservations about a man who wears his
glasses round his neck in the style of Larry Grayson. It’s a look
that not many men can, or indeed should, carry off. Vernon leaves
Liz for three months when he’s offered work on a cruise ship,
drumming in a band although he asks her to go with him. She wasn’t
keen, you could tell. As Vernon practised his drumming in the back
room of the pub, Liz gets away from the noise and serves behind the
bar. “Had a little paradiddle in your ear, did he?” asks Lloyd, to
which Liz didn’t answer but it could explain why her hair looks such
a mess.
Elsewhere this month, we met Kirk’s new girlfriend, Julie Carp.
Julie’s a divorcee, a lady of a certain age and as thick as two
short planks. How else could she think Kirkeh is “deep” and
“intense”. “Hello Sausage!” she greets him when he walks into the
Rovers. A reference, we can only hope, to the fact that Kirk once
worked in a butcher’s. “Hello Snugglebum,” he returns before they
rub noses together and get sentimental over a shandy.
And finally this month,
there was sadness on the Street when Maria’s unborn baby died in the
womb. Over the years I’ve cried a few times at Corrie when stories
have struck a nerve or I’ve been that wrapped up in a character’s
dilemma, and my eyes filled with tears when Maria had to give
‘birth’ to her dead baby boy. And there’s more heartache for Maria
on the way as it’ll be her evil sister-in-law Carla that’ll console
Liam when she finds out what’s happened to baby boy Connor.
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Glenda Young
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