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Now then, when Mike's in Spain he golfs mainly on the plain. And while he's away he leaves his car at Kev's garage along with the keys, telling Kev to make sure the car's delivered back to his flat when it's had it's cybo-turbularegulatory gear shift cam stick fixed. Or something. Anyway, after it's been fixed Tyrone takes Katy Nelson for a drive to Mike's flat and before you can say "I don't suppose they'll use the keys and go into Mike's flat, will they?" they do. Katy's bored and bunking off school and Tyrone's trying to impress so there seems little point in not going in and smashing a priceless ornament and using Mike's phone for an hour to ring Katy's mates in Sheffield, really. No, go on, you'd do the same. Katy knows she's not allowed (by her dad, definitely and by the law, possibly?) to contact her mates back in Sheffield but after she's caught up on all the important news like who's giving the biggest love-bites to who, and where, she tells Tyrone she wants him to drive her to meet up with her mates. And bless him, Tyrone does. She meets her mates midway between Weatherfield and Sheffield; Weathersheff and swears Tyrone to secrecy. Chancing their arm before Mike comes back, they return to his flat for a spot of rifling through his drawers, not realising Mike's already returned and reported his car stolen. "Ha! Gotcha!" Mike says as he finds them in his kitchen fondling the cutlery and looking rather worried.
Someone else looking rather worried this week was Peter. After their wedding last week, Lucy finds her new husband is still phoning his old girlfriend and she's not best pleased. She gets the truth about the lies from Tracy and when she confronts Peter he begs on his knees for forgiveness. This would have been an advantageous position for Lucy had she wanted to give him a good kicking, but sadly she didn't. What she did do was ride off in her little van with a face full of tears and without her wedding ring and husband. Meanwhile Shelley returns to the Rovers with her wonderful mum Bev - once a pub landlady, always a pub landlady - and she's going to be a great addition to the Street; I hope she sticks around. Fred's already making eyes at her, I say he's already taken to Shelley's mum and Harry even perks up a little when he meets her. Shelley knows there's summat up with Peter and even Bev wonders why he won't talk about the wedding but when Shelley asks him to come clean, he continues to lie. "Nothing's wrong, Shell" he tells her. "I'm the luckiest man alive to have you." Let's hear him say that next week after Shelley's mum has his nuts bagged and salted behind the bar. She got the measure of Peter immediately.
Maxine's seat was exposed outside the hair salon when her memorial bench was unveiled in a little ceremony held on the cobbles. Not much else to say here really.
Gail, Audrey and David fly off to Canada for a holiday, leaving Sarah and Bethany home alone with Martin popping in to look after her. Sarah's got other plans though and asks Martin if Todd can stay over. Not having much choice in the matter, Martin agrees and Sarah, Todd and baby play happy families while Gail's away. But if Audrey's away too, with Maxine dead and Maria gone awol, who's looking after the hair salon now?
Janice reminds Les that she wants him to sign the divorce papers and Les winds up Mick and Janice all week whenever he sees them (which he does, often, it got a bit monotonous). Janice asks Mick to move in with her, to show both Mick and Les how serious she is about her relationship with the copper. And of course this makes Les even more jealous and bitter than he already was. Anyway, out on duty, PC Mick and PC Lady Emma see a car run a red light and when they pull the car over, it's Les. Les starts giving Mick a hard time, does a bit of pushing, a bit of threatening, a bit of insulting... and it's when he insults Janice that Mick lashes out. Before you know it, Les is on the deck and Mick's giving him a kicking. Rightly, Les is crying police harassment, copper brutality and all that sort of stuff but sadly, no one seems to believe him (or care). What is it about Les Battersby that any storyline he's involved in is just a waste of space? Is it the actor? Is it the character? I'm like, huh, whatever, just get outta my teevee man. Emma saw what really happened so will she stand by her copper or will she cop out? When she tells Curly, she doesn't tell him everything but Curly's still upset to hear Emma's on the shortlist to be a seargant which might mean, gulp, a move away from the street.
And that's just about that for this week.
Glenda
By Glenda Young , writer of Coronation Street Weekly Updates for the internet since 1995.
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