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Corrie weekly updates from 1995 Coronation Street Books by Glenda Young October 14 2017 It’s Ken’s birthday and he throws a dinner party, inviting Audrey, Brian, Cathy and Roy. It’s a pleasant enough evening apart from the fact that Brian smells like a stock cube. This is because Amy puts the stock cube in the shower head and Brian takes a shower at Ken’s as there’s something wrong with the shower at Roy’s. Amy’s stock cube stunt is part of a joke that gets her, Asha and Summer into trouble this week as their jokes get out of hand. They also put blue paint into Roy’s windscreen wipers in the Woody. (How they did this is anyone’s guess). Summer’s called into the head’s office at school after she demonstrates her artistic prowess by drawing an, er, part of the male anatomy in shaving cream onto a teacher’s car. Summer hangs her head in shame and tells Billy and Todd she’ll never do it again. Far worse is Amy and Asha’s punishment when they’re forced to dance about in front of Cathy and Brian as Boney M tribute group Phoney M. However, I don’t yet think that the girls’ games are over, not yet, as each of them dare the other one to do something even worse that will leave Summer unconscious next week. Shona’s ex-fella Dane, father of killer Clayton, arrives and demands the winnings from Shona’s scratch card. When she refuses and David threatens him, Dane locks himself in David’s car with Lily and Max and tells the kids the truth about who killed their mam. There were lovely scenes between David and Max as Max tries to come to terms with the truth about Shona being the mum of the lad who killed his mum. Shona tells David that she loves him and the kids but the truth is that Clayton is her son and there’s nowt she can do about that. And so they split up for half an episode and then get back together again. With the factory girls still out of work, Beth and Alya buy a sewing machine so that they can do some work at home. Trouble is, the sewing machine they buy is one of the ones that’s been nicked from Underworld by Adam Barlow. The cops are called, Adam and Todd are grilled (lightly but not enough to singe) and Billy’s angry at what he thinks Todd’s involved in. He’s so angry that he takes an envelope of cash he finds in Todd’s office and distributes the cash to the factory girls, anonymously, in envelopes through their front doors. The money belongs to Shona and when Billy finds out it’s hers, he can’t apologise enough but Shona’s happy that the money has gone to the girls as she’d planned to give it to Dane to get him out of her life. Elsewhere this week, Rana tries to kiss Kate. And while I’ve never been a Rana fan, this week my heart broke for her. She’s got a crush on Kate the size of Salford itself and says that she isn’t gay, she just has feelings for her friend. Kate can’t cope with the news and doesn’t know what to do. Meanwhile, Zeedan tells Rana he wants to marry her and have babies. For the first time ever since she joined the show, I really do feel for Rana and she allowed us to see something going on behind her make-up mask. Nicola has a big announcement to make when she tells Phelan and Eileen that she’s pregnant – and the father is Gary Windass. Crikey, that was quick, she only slept with him last week. Phelan’s got more on his mind when he follows Daniel to the nursing home again. Daniel’s hoping to dig dirt on Phelan by speaking to Vinny Ashford, who’s mum is in the care home. However, it’s Phelan who speaks to Vinny over the facetime, or whatever you call it. I’ve just about given up on all this Phelan malarkey and wish it was over. In other news this week, Mary’s moved in with Norris. We only know this because it was mentioned in passing, we never saw her move in and we don’t know what their living arrangements are. Does Norris’ house have three bedrooms or is Mary sharing with Norris? Enquiring minds need to know. Anyway, she moves back to Dev’s house when he son Jude with wife Angie and baby George return from South Africa and move in with Noz. And that’s just about that for this week. Glenda Young |
