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Deciding to crack on with her media career, Candice applies to join a
TV presenting course and it only takes three hundred of her earth pounds
to join. Trouble is, she's skint and Audrey sends her away with a flea
in her ear after she goes there with the begging bowl. Fortunately,
Frankie offers to pay for the course which comes with A-list endorsement
straight from the mouth of Claire Smilie, presenter, apparently, of Celebrities
and Their Bins and you don't get more A-list than that. At least not round
here. Warren's footballer mate's wife gets Candice a trial at the local
radio station so up she goes in the helicopter to be the eye in the sky.
Back on the cobbles everyone's tuned in to hear Candice on the radio doing
her bit. "There's a lot of traffic going this way" she says "But there's
more traffic going the other way so if I were you, I wouldn't go that way"
before the air turbulence wreaks its revenge on her belly and Candice throws
up, live, down the airwaves.
Back on the street, Les and Cilla need work and Les starts back on the
cabs, much to Steve's surprise. Cilla goes back to the Weatherfield
Arms and isn't best pleased to find Liz has been promoted to bar manageress
who tells Cilla there's no job there for her. She ends up taking a
job at the chippy on the Street and Les and Chesney think they've died and
gone to chip heaven. Rocky, the owner, doesn't speak English and Cilla's
mastery of Chinese isn't too hot either so they end up yelling and flinging
stuff at each other before Rocky chases Cilla down the cobbles with a fish
fryer. The locals are in their element, making the most of Cilla's
embarassment behind the fish shop counter and call her CodCilla, her face
turning clarty-brown from the sunbed Les bought her from Charlie West to
top up her tan. Then things start to go wrong at the Battersby's -
the fridge door falls off, the immersion's on the blink, only one ring on
the cooker works and the toaster's on the fritz so Cilla decides Les has
to ask her to marry him. That way they'll be sure to get loads of free gifts,
household white goods preferred, from friends and neighbours. With
Les down on one knee Cilla accepts his proposal to be the 3rd Mrs. B.
Chesney tells Rita the truth behind the wedding and soon the news spreads
so that wedding invitations get thrown back at the happy couple.
Angela's dad Keith Appleyard gets his feet well and truly under the table
when he gets accepted onto the cobbles. He's got Emily doing his washing
and baking him casseroles and pies as well as Audrey and Hayley popping
in to to see if there's anything they can do. Sunita helps him out in the
corner shop and even Martin's offered to take him on a fishing trip.
Keith's gentle charm seems to be working to soothe Craig who returned to
school this week after the massacre of his father, the suicide of his sister
and the incarceration of his mother. Never mind bereavement counselling
or being emotionally scarred for life, have one of Emily's pies, lad, that'll
do the trick.
At Davenport Motors, Ian gives Sally demeaning tasks in order to get
her to leave. He sends her on the sandwich run, has her washing cars and
gives her his best suit to take to the dry cleaner. Sally brings
it back direct from the laundry, crumpled to bits and shrunken, but at least
it were clean. Ian threatens to tell Kevin about their affair but
when he finds Kevin at home he can't bring himself to do it, yet. He tells
him instead that he'll no longer be putting any garage work his way, a huge
financial blow for the Websters. Ian and Sally call a truce, for now,
and Sally agrees to a move to another garage to work for one of Ian's mates
in the trade.
Writer Mel Hutchwright blags his way around the street, getting a free
lunch in the cafe after sweet talking Roy into becoming a researcher on
his new book. "Plenty of gravy, Royston" says Mel as Roy gets him
the lunch, "I lurve gravy". Then to the Rovers where Fred
buys Mel a pint after he promises to put Fred into his new book as the hero
of the hour, the sturdy coalminer who saves his fellow pit workers from certain
death. When Norris finds out the hero isn't to be him, he's devestated until
Mel tells him the character of Mr Cole in his book is the union chief,
an indefatiguable leader of men. Norris is straight to the bar for
another pint for Mel.
After Penny King's home is broken into, Mike asks her to move in with
him at the flat. "I'd like you to be the last woman in my life" he
tells her.
If you cast your mind back to the last time the Weatherfield Trader's
Assoication got a mention in the updates, there was a chap called Diggory
Compton the baker who made an impression. Well, it turns out that Sally's
old hardware store is to be a baker's shop and this heralds the return of
the rotund, bespectacled, square dealer to the street. Fred and Roy
aren't too happy that Diggory's setting up shop and fear loss of trade in
pork pies and sandwiches.
And finally this week, the flat above the corner shop sprung a leak so
serious that the ceiling of the shop came down on Fred's head. It's
bad workmanship from Charlie that's caused it but he refuses to acknowledge
this when Sunita goes to ask for his help. When she returns with
Dev, Charlie's still refusing to accept the blame even though it's clearly
his fault and he lashes out at Dev in the Rovers.
And that's just about that for this week.
Glenda
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