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July 22 2017

It’s been an exciting week on Corrie as Bethany’s grooming storyline starts to come to a close. This week saw young Craig bringing corrupt copper Neil to justice.  Craig tapes Neil’s words when Neil tells him that Bethany got what she deserved, her and all the slappers like her. Craig replays the recording to D. C. Leigh and Bethany gives a full statement. There was some amazing acting, especially from Tina O’Brien as Sarah Platt. I rate her as one of the UK’s best actresses. When mum Beth finds out what Craig’s gone and done, she asks if her Craigy is in love with Bethany, which he denies, but we the viewers know there’s something deeper going on in Craig’s heart.

Elsewhere this week, Brian’s appointed chief litter inspector and armed with a loud hailer he berates everyone he can find on the street for dropping litter. When Roy buys a new salt and pepper set and loses the receipt, Brian finds it on the ground and fines Roy. It’s preposterous stuff and shows how ridiculous Brian can be, but there’s one in every town, or at least there is in ours.
 

Eva continues with her ridiculous fake pregnancy scam and tells Aidan that she can’t work at the sewing machine any more so he promotes her into the office and above Jenny flaming Bradley’s head.  Well, Jenny’s not best pleased, as you can imagine. I’d have much more respect for Eva if she just chucked Aidan out. In fact, this stupid pregnancy storyline is making me dislike Eva a lot and seems out of character for her. Anyway, Adam and Eva work together to further scam Aidan out of cash. Eva just wants revenge on Aidan for cheating with Maria but Adam’s got much bigger things on his mind in the shape of taking Underworld from the Connors.

Over in the hair salon, Gail tells Audrey that Nick’s sold both of his flats in Victoria Court. Johnny Connor’s bought one of them and the other’s been bought by an investor who already owns property there. Audrey’s dismayed to hear this as it means Nick’s not planning on returning to Weatherfield any time soon.

And finally, this week, it was the end of an era as Liz McDonald left the Rovers Return when newcomers Toyah and Peter took over. Toyah made a good speech, saluting the women of the Rovers from Annie Walker to Bet Lynch through to Vera Duckworth and Liz. What? No mention of St Ella of the Back Room?  Liz asked Toyah if she’d look after a plant in the back yard at the Rovers that she bought when baby Ruari died and Toyah said yes, of course. Making Toyah the custodian of the memory of a lost baby was poignant stuff indeed.

Will Liz survive in her new job at the medical centre where nasty boss Moira (who isn’t a battleaxe as ITV have said – she’s a bully) rules the roost? She’s like a fish out of water so far, is Liz. I hope it won’t be long before she’s back behind the bar where she belongs.

And that’s just about that for this week.
 
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This week’s writers were Carmel Morgan and Martin Allen (Monday double); Ella Greenhill (Wednesday); Mark Wadlow and John Kerr (Friday double). Find out all about the Coronation Street writing team at Coronation Street Blog: Exclusive: All Current Corrie writers online

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