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APRIL 21
It was Gail Platt's 50th birthday this week and on
the day when she should have been eating cake and drinking binge,
she was drowning her sorrows instead. David was sent to the big
house for four months in a young offenders' institution for smashing
up the Street and breaking his mum's heart. Not one to let a small
matter of her grandson being jailed spoil a good party, Audrey
invited a cast of thousands to the house, put her best frock on and
helped herself to the gin. To the strains of the Stones singing Time
Is On My Side (Yes It Is) there were embarrassed mutterings across
the Platt living room carpet until Gail's mates and neighbours
slowly left the party, Gail headed up to bed and Audrey got stuck
into the drink. Mind you, that Audrey's going to need to keep a
clear head as Gail's real dad has been trying to get in touch, the
only trouble is that he doesn't know he's got a child, even if she
is now the 50 year old patron saint of suffering.
Over in the
big house, David was trying to cope with being banged up and lied to
Gail on her visit that he couldn't phone her as the queue for the
phone was too long. The truth was that he called girlfriend Tina
instead. But if David was hoping to get an engaged signal from Tina
then he's got his wires crossed as there was no reply. She'd already
dumped him when things got too weird. “I need a break,” she told
him. “I've had enough, I'm getting the bus.” David's sharing a
cell with a bloke who sings his way through the day starting with
How Much Is That Doggy In The Window and dispenses hardened words of
wisdom: “Don't sit on any razor blades”.
After Roy's car
caused chaos last week for Tony Gordon's mega bucks sky scraper,
there was a stand off on the Street and Tony backed down after Roy's
Ghandi-like passive resistance. Tony donated ten thousand pounds to
the bat charity of Roy's choice, but ten thousand pounds is small
change to a man like Eyeball Tony the Catalogue Man. Did you know
there's a Facebook group called Tony Gordon's looking at me funny?
Well, there is. Anyway, in the caff, Becky gave Roy a power hug in
support, something which upset a sensitive soul like Roy greatly and
he longed for the night to fall so he could check his emails from
Hayley in th'Africa.
Jason and Becky are back together in the
Rovers after Bill got them thinking and drinking in the pub. Jason
had found out that Becky's builder boyfriend Rick had a missus and a
kid and he warned Becky, who took the news in her stride. She pinned
Rick to the floor of the caff and smeared him with cream cake and
tea. Atta-girl, Becks!
Elsewhere, Leanne's hoping she can
turn the burnt-out pizza place in the precinct into a late night
drinking den and enlists Roger the plumber to give her some advice.
She's keen to get stuck in and feckless Dan the bookie man's up for
the idea too.
Over in the Rovers, Vernon's got problems when
Harry the bookie started chatting up Liz in the pub. He's a flirt,
is that Harry, and Liz is tempted but may have some reservations
about a man who wears his glasses round his neck a la Larry Grayson.
It's a look that not many men can, and indeed should, carry
off.
And finally this week, we found out that Dev's a fluffy
ditherer, according to his daughter, the wonderful Amber. Perturbed
by this news, Dev seeks counsel from the wisest of them all on the
Street and had a quiet word with Betty in the bar. “What kind of
sweet would you describe me as?” he asked her. “Am I more of a
chocolate éclair or a marshmallow?” Betty looked him up and down and
gave him the benefit of her wisdom. “I'd say you're more fruit and
nut.” And you can't argue with Betty.
And that's just
about that for this week.
Coronation Street writers this week
were, Stephen Bennett, David Lane, Simon Crowther, Jonathan Harvey
and Jayne Hollinson.
Glenda
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