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Blanche returns full of vim and vitriol. Deirdre worries
about how best to tell her about Tracy's baby, but Blanche spots the bump
the second she walks through the door and demands to know who's the father.
When she finds out she gives the Croppers a sharp and nasty piece of her
very tiny mind and tells them the only way they'll get their hands on her
great-grandchild is over her dead body. She questions the Cropper's
ability as parents with a final insult to Roy: "... and you look as if you
should be crayoning something". But there's a worse insult
for the Croppers than anything Blanche could spit at them. Maya the
lawyer who gave Roy the advice to marry Tracy so that he could have a legal
claim over the baby, mentions in passing that he doesn't have to do that,
no. What he can do, instead, is sign a parental responsibility form
which gives him the same rights. As the penny drops, so do the Cropper's
faces and spririts.
Nanna Brenda suggests to Sarah and Todd that they move in with her as it's clear they're having trouble finding money for the rent. It'll have to be seperate rooms, she tells them, she can't sanction fornication outside of marriage and in her spare room. Sarah and Todd turn down her offer so she gives them £300 cash to help them with their rent and Brenda takes Bethany to sleep over at her house. When she brings Bethany back the next day, there's a granny stand-off on the cobbles as Gail demands to know just what's been going on. "But I'm her grandmother!" she moans. "And so am I !" says Nanna Brenda, who sort of floated up the cobbles with a self-satisfied smirk on her face while Gail harrumphed to the Rovers to moan at her Nick.
Blackpool featured heavily this week and saw the return of familiar faces. First off there's Liz McDonald working behind the bar in the Black Dog. She's all yellow hair and cleavage and having an unhappy affair with a bloke called Laurie, who looks like he's wearing a toupee even though he isn't. It's Cecil Newton's 70th birthday bash and Liz is invited so off she goes. As she's re-doing her lippy in the ladies, there's a flush behind her, a toilet door swings open and Bet Lynch steps out. It wasn't the grandest of entrances but perhaps the most suitable, considering she left Granada in deep-doo last time she was there. Anyway, so Liz and Bet are catching up, Fred's buying them both drinks and Cecil Newton takes a fancy to Bet and ends up asking her to marry him. He's got a yacht (the 'Last Orders') and a fair bit of money; he's also got a son who's afraid he'll lose his inheritance if Bet marries his dad. So the son hires Lancashire's answer to Magnum PI (without the 'tache and lamborghini) to dig up dirt and prove to his dad that Bet's nothing more than the cheap tart he reckons she is.
And this leads us nicely to escaped convict Jim McDonald who turns up at Steve and Karen's flat with police on his tail. Jim's desperate to see Liz and find out what's going on so they all bundle into Steve's taxi and hit the road, on the run, to Blackpool. Now then, it gets a bit complicated. Fred's got a caravan on the sea-front and he gives the key to Bet who passes it to Jim so he and Liz can talk. Meanwhile Liz's lover, lothario Laurie with the hairpiece calls the coppers and turns Jim in. Ashley, Claire and Josh end up in Blackpool too and have to spend the night in a double bed in a B&B, trying as hard as they can not to touch each other. So, they meet up with Fred and all decide to spend a few days in the caravan which means Bet has to get Jim out of there quick and hides him away in Cecil's boat just before the police turn up to ask a bemused Fred if he called them about an Irish fella, fresh out of jail. Away from the caravan park, Bet spies police cars on the look out for jailbird Jim so she buries his head in her more than ample face and snogs him on the prom - in full view of Magnum PI who snaps what he thinks is the incriminating evidence Cecil's son expected. That evening, Bet and Cecil have dinner and when she agrees to marry him, tomorrow, it brings tears to his eyes. The size of the diamond in the engagement ring does the same to Bet. So will the wedding go ahead before Cecil sees the pictures of Bet snogging Jim on the open front? Will Jim be sent back to prison or find sanctuary as a bell-ringer up the tower, calling out on the half-hour "I love you, Elizabeth, so I do" and "Catch yerself on" on the stroke of midnight. Will Ashley and Claire get over themselves? Tune in for more carry on the cobbles next week.
And that's just about that for this week.
By Glenda
Young , writer of
Coronation Street Weekly Updates
for the internet since 1995Nanna Brenda suggests to Sarah and Todd that they move in with her as it's clear they're having trouble finding money for the rent. It'll have to be seperate rooms, she tells them, she can't sanction fornication outside of marriage and in her spare room. Sarah and Todd turn down her offer so she gives them £300 cash to help them with their rent and Brenda takes Bethany to sleep over at her house. When she brings Bethany back the next day, there's a granny stand-off on the cobbles as Gail demands to know just what's been going on. "But I'm her grandmother!" she moans. "And so am I !" says Nanna Brenda, who sort of floated up the cobbles with a self-satisfied smirk on her face while Gail harrumphed to the Rovers to moan at her Nick.
Blackpool featured heavily this week and saw the return of familiar faces. First off there's Liz McDonald working behind the bar in the Black Dog. She's all yellow hair and cleavage and having an unhappy affair with a bloke called Laurie, who looks like he's wearing a toupee even though he isn't. It's Cecil Newton's 70th birthday bash and Liz is invited so off she goes. As she's re-doing her lippy in the ladies, there's a flush behind her, a toilet door swings open and Bet Lynch steps out. It wasn't the grandest of entrances but perhaps the most suitable, considering she left Granada in deep-doo last time she was there. Anyway, so Liz and Bet are catching up, Fred's buying them both drinks and Cecil Newton takes a fancy to Bet and ends up asking her to marry him. He's got a yacht (the 'Last Orders') and a fair bit of money; he's also got a son who's afraid he'll lose his inheritance if Bet marries his dad. So the son hires Lancashire's answer to Magnum PI (without the 'tache and lamborghini) to dig up dirt and prove to his dad that Bet's nothing more than the cheap tart he reckons she is.
And this leads us nicely to escaped convict Jim McDonald who turns up at Steve and Karen's flat with police on his tail. Jim's desperate to see Liz and find out what's going on so they all bundle into Steve's taxi and hit the road, on the run, to Blackpool. Now then, it gets a bit complicated. Fred's got a caravan on the sea-front and he gives the key to Bet who passes it to Jim so he and Liz can talk. Meanwhile Liz's lover, lothario Laurie with the hairpiece calls the coppers and turns Jim in. Ashley, Claire and Josh end up in Blackpool too and have to spend the night in a double bed in a B&B, trying as hard as they can not to touch each other. So, they meet up with Fred and all decide to spend a few days in the caravan which means Bet has to get Jim out of there quick and hides him away in Cecil's boat just before the police turn up to ask a bemused Fred if he called them about an Irish fella, fresh out of jail. Away from the caravan park, Bet spies police cars on the look out for jailbird Jim so she buries his head in her more than ample face and snogs him on the prom - in full view of Magnum PI who snaps what he thinks is the incriminating evidence Cecil's son expected. That evening, Bet and Cecil have dinner and when she agrees to marry him, tomorrow, it brings tears to his eyes. The size of the diamond in the engagement ring does the same to Bet. So will the wedding go ahead before Cecil sees the pictures of Bet snogging Jim on the open front? Will Jim be sent back to prison or find sanctuary as a bell-ringer up the tower, calling out on the half-hour "I love you, Elizabeth, so I do" and "Catch yerself on" on the stroke of midnight. Will Ashley and Claire get over themselves? Tune in for more carry on the cobbles next week.
And that's just about that for this week.
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