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Cilla and Yana (Viz’s Fat Slags writ large) go shopping in town to try on
wedding dresses and bridesmaid frocks. The posh shop lady can barely
hide her disdain as the pair of them come out of the changing room in gowns
covered in ruffles, fluffy bits and things that dangle, sparkle and possibly
vibrate. Cilla tells Les she wants a decent engagement ring - but how’s
he going to buy one when he’s stony broke? He hatches a plan and
troops down to the cop shop, tells the rozzer at the desk he’s lost a ring
and wonders if any have been handed in. The copper takes the details and
shows Les a tray of rings to identify the one he’s ‘lost’. But the ring that
Les picks has been stolen and the copper has already run Les’ details through
the system and knows he’s got form, done time, and stirred a bit of porridge.
Cilla’s dragged to the station to give Les an alibi and an ear-bashing and
demands, again, a decent, proper ring. Where he finds the money we’re
never quite told but a ring he does get, with a receipt, and then he’s dragged
to the Rovers by Yana. And there, on his 50th birthday, Les gets
down on one knee to propose passionately in a public house.
Steve returns from Spain looking as tense and pasty-faced as he did before
he left. He looks about as relaxed as if he’d spent his siesta sessions
poring over hard sums and long division. When he finds out that Dev’s
sold his share of Streetcars to Lloyd, it adds to a growing list of
worries which include a hefty solicitor’s bill, notification of the court
date against Tracy for Amy, and to top things off nicely, a letter from Karen’s
solicitor to say she wants the telly back. Liz, a woman made over by
reality TV show ‘Pimp My Clothes’, offers some support to her son.
Phil the foot feeler doesn’t find it funny that Gail’s told tales about
him to the Health Centre manager. He has a go at Gail in the street about
keeping her nose out of other people’s bunions. Notwithstanding, and
that’s a word I don’t use very often in the updates, he does end up agreeing
to go out with Gail on a date. She simpers when he accepts.
Lloyd wonders what secrets Kelly’s hiding after they go on their first date.
As they leave The Clock restaurant, a homeless woman sheltering in a shop
doorway recognises Kelly: “I see you’ve got what you always wanted then,”
she says to Kelly. Anyway, it turns out that Kelly’s also done time
for a spot of shop-lifting but she tells Lloyd those days are long behind
her now.
Keith and Audrey also go on their first date this week when he takes her
out for a meal. Not one to splash the cash, he’s distraught at missing
the early-bird special and says he’ll nibble breadsticks as Audrey peruses
the more expensive end of the menu. Audrey’s yet to discover why Keith
is so frugal but enjoys herself greatly with him on a Bank Holiday fishing
trip where she gets muddy in wellies and lets her hair down.
Adam passes his driving test and granddad Ken gives him £500 towards
a new car. Candice, much taken with the underwear heir, accompanies
him to the car auction where he buys an old banger that breaks down on the
way home. “You are so dumped” she tells him before storming home on the bus.
Ken’s not too happy to hear Adam’s wasted the money but there’s even more
bad vibes heading Ken-wards when Mike undermines him completely and buys the
lad a sports car. “You are so un-dumped” Candice says, but in an even less
subtle way.
Shelley makes sterling progress with Zak the psychotherapist who knows it’s
Charlie to blame for the state that Shelley’s in. So when Charlie asks
her to marry him, it’s all Zak can do to stay professionally schtum. Fragile
but determined, Shelley returns to work behind the bar where she’s doing just
great despite Charlie telling her otherwise. When Betty hears the news
about the upcoming wedding, she has her Les Dawson moment and pulls her cardi
across her chest and says it’ll all end in tears.
Sally’s horrified when Rosie gets nits but when they spread to Chesney and
to Janice she tuts and moans that only common people get nits, until of course,
the whole street knows that the nits came from the Weatherfield Websters.
A drunken, itching Janice tells Sean to shave her hair off. “Are you
sure you want a number one all over?” he says, clippers in hand in Eileen’s
front room. “Yesh!” she repliesh. And there you have it, a bald Battersby
and a squashed-in storyline to cover the fact that the actress has had her
hair shaved off for charity. A brave woman indeed.
With Danny and Frankie away on their hols, Jamie and Leanne make the most
of an empty house and take a sickie off work to spend the day in bed.
But just as Jamie gets amorous when Leanne does the hoovering in her undies
(and it’s amazing how many crumbs you can find in there), Jamie’s mum Carole
turns up at the front door with her bags - and her baggage.
And finally this week, Deirdre’s glasses get nicked by a safari park gibbon
(you couldn’t make this up) and she has to wear one of her old, huge 1970’s
style specs she finds in the loft. Wonderful stuff.
And that’s just about that for this week.
By Glenda
Young , writer of
Coronation Street Weekly Updates
for the internet since 1995.
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