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Ashley and Claire get engaged with a ring he buys her from th'internet website e'bay-gum. Diarising (I love that word) a date for their wedding, Ashley manages to fit in the nuptials between sales of lamb chops in April, cleaning the deep freeze in January and cutting his toe nails in June. The date is set for August 2007 and Claire's not best pleased to have to wait until then, although she says nowt, just pouts.
Charlie's working at Gail's house and Shelley gets the wrong end of the stick about what's going on between him and Mrs Platt. After a few drinks in the Rovers, she storms round to see Gail who comes out for a fight in her dressing gown, again. Shelley's made to look a fool as the neighbours come out to watch what's going on. Cilla's hanging out of her bedroom window screaming for blood and Ashley turns up in his pants telling them all to keep the noise down as they've woken up Josh.
The big story this week has been Sunita and Dev's wedding. First off they get legally hitched at the registry office with the Croppers as witnesses and then it's the full Hindu-do as they dress up in their finery and silks, get showered with flowers and Les turns up with a decorated horse. Even Sunita's parents turn up to make the wedding perfect and all the usual suspects are present, Emily even brings along a flask of hot tea with a little something in it. Deirdre wears a wonderful hat that wobbles when she speaks and Shelley's done up in a sari, straight off the set of Carry On Up the Khyber. Penny turns up to make amends with Mike, and Charlie turns up to make up with Shelley and the whole thing's going great until five! yes! five! police officers turn up to arrest the bride for bigamy. Off to the station Dev and Sunita go to assist with enquiries, where they're given the routine hard time. Dev manages to convince them of his innocence as they reckoned he was an illegal immigrant marrying Sunita to stay in the UK. But poor Sunita has an impossible time explaining why her signature is on six certificates of marriage to known illegals and why six large payments of cash were paid into her bank account after each wedding. Although they both know Maya's behind all this, the rozzers won't believe Dev and Sunita's story that she'd used Sunita's birth certificate and Sunita is charged and locked up in a cell. Back at the wedding, Les and Cilla lead a hungry congregation and tuck in to the buffet.
Elsewhere on the street this week, young Warren's over the moon that he's been accepted to play football with Weatherfield County. The news delights Candice and she starts Warren on his way to becoming a footballing star by giving him one of them daft haircuts. She reckons her life with Warren is her ticket from perm to the prem.
Karen buys another pregnancy test but doesn't need to use it and gets all upset as, zut alors!, she's started her period (is this a Corrie first - this mention of such previously unmentionable ladies goings-on? About time too.)
And that's just about that for this week.
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