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David is still bunking off school and when Keith spies him climbing over the back fence, he dobs him in to Gail. They have a meeting with the headmaster and David makes up a tale that he's being bullied by some big lads but without names, the headmaster refuses to believe him, though, of course, Gail does. As it's nearly the end of term and the 'bullies' will have left the school by next year, Gail decides to keep David at home and tutor him herself. She can't get to grips with simultaneous equations or Chaucer, while David pretends that he can't either. A nasty teenager he may be but you've got to admire him, he even plays truant when being taught at home. Audrey suggests that they call in the local teacher to help out, Ken Barlow. That should wipe the smug smile off his face.
Keith is looking for somewhere for him and Craig to live but it's all proving a bit stressful for him as he's never done that sort of thing before. Things aren't helped when he asks advice of Roy and Dev, who paint a poor picture of the private rental market and all the potential problems. After a fraught day house hunting he collapses in the street and is taken to hospital. He's had a mild angina attack and is let out the following day but will have to go back for tests. Keith arranges for he and Craig to move to his sister's in Bournemouth but Craig is firm that he's not going. Rosie is off to France for 6 weeks and he promises her that he'll still be there when she gets back and gives her an eternity ring.
Steve and Lloyd are still at loggerheads (one of Glenda's readers tells us that it's near Mold in Wales but my road atlas has it near Market Drayton in Shropshire). Steve goes to a meeting with the council and comes back to the cab office to tell them that he is no longer considered a fit person to hold a licence. The business could continue if somebody else took over the licence but Lloyd won't countenance working with Steve anymore. He offers him £5000 for his half of the firm but Steve refuses as, despite the fact that they've got no licence and no customers, he thinks it's his pride and joy. It all makes for a pretty poor birthday for Steve. Liz tries to brighten things up by buying him a cake and gets everyone to sing him Happy Birthday in the pub but a fight nearly breaks out. Steve plots to set up business on his own and asks Eileen to be the licensee.
Another business in trouble is the bakery where Diggory seems unable to charm the ladies with his cream slice the way he used to. But all is not lost as young entrepreneurs Molly and Tyrone decide to help out in their spare time. Given the success of their last joint venture which ended up on fire in the middle of a pond, I don't think Diggory will be winning the Queen's Award for Industry any time soon.
With the cab firm closed, Les asks Leanne for a job at the factory which prompts a 'no' from Leanne and a vicious cackle from Janice. Shelley's looking for another position too. Figuring that when Fred and Bev get married, Fred will instal Bev as landlady and feeling squeezed out already she arranges to go to the brewery and have a chat about getting another pub. She confides in Betty about it who promises to keep her secret firmly buttoned under her ample cardie. Vernon decides to broaden his horizons by becoming a song writer. He pens a ditty for Liz which is truly awful. Pub quiz, Billy Whizz, fizz, showbiz, Tariq Aziz and the fat birds from Viz, I think you get the idea. Not so awful that he couldn't manage to sell it to Kirk so that he could serenade Fiz though.
Sean's mother (who used to play Connie Clayton) eventually returns from holiday looking suitably bronzed and no better than she ought to be. He gets straight to the point and wants to know who his real dad is. He was just a fling; called Paul Jones; was a plumber and doesn't know about Sean. Sean is distraught by it all "it's a mess. the more I find out, the less I wanna know."
And finally, Amber comes home with a glowing school report which Dev eventually manages to take a small amount of pleasure out of but not enough to stop him sending Amber off to Finland for the summer holidays (please, please make sure she comes back safely). Sally admitted that the first time she was drunk she "ended up in t'gutter wi' me skirt over me 'ead, singing 'The Birdie Song'". And there was something about Maria, a flash man (little more than a boy really), an old toilet, a pair of scissors and a dog blanket.
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Barry Smith
Keith is looking for somewhere for him and Craig to live but it's all proving a bit stressful for him as he's never done that sort of thing before. Things aren't helped when he asks advice of Roy and Dev, who paint a poor picture of the private rental market and all the potential problems. After a fraught day house hunting he collapses in the street and is taken to hospital. He's had a mild angina attack and is let out the following day but will have to go back for tests. Keith arranges for he and Craig to move to his sister's in Bournemouth but Craig is firm that he's not going. Rosie is off to France for 6 weeks and he promises her that he'll still be there when she gets back and gives her an eternity ring.
Steve and Lloyd are still at loggerheads (one of Glenda's readers tells us that it's near Mold in Wales but my road atlas has it near Market Drayton in Shropshire). Steve goes to a meeting with the council and comes back to the cab office to tell them that he is no longer considered a fit person to hold a licence. The business could continue if somebody else took over the licence but Lloyd won't countenance working with Steve anymore. He offers him £5000 for his half of the firm but Steve refuses as, despite the fact that they've got no licence and no customers, he thinks it's his pride and joy. It all makes for a pretty poor birthday for Steve. Liz tries to brighten things up by buying him a cake and gets everyone to sing him Happy Birthday in the pub but a fight nearly breaks out. Steve plots to set up business on his own and asks Eileen to be the licensee.
Another business in trouble is the bakery where Diggory seems unable to charm the ladies with his cream slice the way he used to. But all is not lost as young entrepreneurs Molly and Tyrone decide to help out in their spare time. Given the success of their last joint venture which ended up on fire in the middle of a pond, I don't think Diggory will be winning the Queen's Award for Industry any time soon.
With the cab firm closed, Les asks Leanne for a job at the factory which prompts a 'no' from Leanne and a vicious cackle from Janice. Shelley's looking for another position too. Figuring that when Fred and Bev get married, Fred will instal Bev as landlady and feeling squeezed out already she arranges to go to the brewery and have a chat about getting another pub. She confides in Betty about it who promises to keep her secret firmly buttoned under her ample cardie. Vernon decides to broaden his horizons by becoming a song writer. He pens a ditty for Liz which is truly awful. Pub quiz, Billy Whizz, fizz, showbiz, Tariq Aziz and the fat birds from Viz, I think you get the idea. Not so awful that he couldn't manage to sell it to Kirk so that he could serenade Fiz though.
Sean's mother (who used to play Connie Clayton) eventually returns from holiday looking suitably bronzed and no better than she ought to be. He gets straight to the point and wants to know who his real dad is. He was just a fling; called Paul Jones; was a plumber and doesn't know about Sean. Sean is distraught by it all "it's a mess. the more I find out, the less I wanna know."
And finally, Amber comes home with a glowing school report which Dev eventually manages to take a small amount of pleasure out of but not enough to stop him sending Amber off to Finland for the summer holidays (please, please make sure she comes back safely). Sally admitted that the first time she was drunk she "ended up in t'gutter wi' me skirt over me 'ead, singing 'The Birdie Song'". And there was something about Maria, a flash man (little more than a boy really), an old toilet, a pair of scissors and a dog blanket.
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Barry Smith
'It's not easy ... building Xanadu in the backstreets of Weatherfield.'
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