Big story of the week
is Gail's wedding, her fifth, to her fourth husband (she married
Brian twice in a fit of optimism over
experience). Nick returns and meets his
granddad Ted for the very
first time. A tearful Ted
tells Gail how pleased he is for the
opportunity to give
her away on her big day. Well, he did
miss the first four times. With Gail
dolled up in a lace frock with a high neck she exchanges oaths at
the altar with Joe. ?Repeat after
me?? the registrar says although Gail should surely know the
words by
now. Joe says his vows too and
when he got to that bit where he goes: "I do solemnly declare?" I
thought he was going to finish that bit off with "?myself bankrupt"
but instead he went on about love and honour and stuff that brought
more of a tear to
Ted's eye. The reception
was held at the Rovers, where else, with Twiglets and Cava keeping
the very small amount of people who were there, quite
happy. An
appropriate tune played on the jukebox, it was
Madness. Nick eyed up
Tina who pretended not to notice. David watched
Nick eye up Tina and in a wonderful moment in the smoking room in
the Rovers' yard, David winds up his big brother Nicky over being a
mummy's boy and eyeing up his new step-father's
girl. "Never call
me Nicky again!" yells, er, Nicky as he throws David up against the
wall of the pub with a sneer on his face. The happy
couple then set off on a one night honeymoon to a cottage in The
Lakes with Gail as happy as can be and Joe scared stiff that the
loan-shark fella will be paying him a visit any day
soon.
Back on the Street, Peter's plans to open the bar
forge ahead when
he's given the all-clear from the
Council.
George is the
sort of fella
who's in the funny handshake brigade, if you ask me and he'll have
met someone from the department, probably Mr Shifti Bakhanda to ease
Peter's planning permission through without any
delay. Ken's up in
arms but when is he not? and Deirdre's scowling
again.
It's Molly and Tyrone's first wedding anniversary and
Molly goes through the motions of playing the dutiful
wife. Molly decides
that Tyrone will take another job he's been offered on the other
side of town although even Jack can see it's not such a good
idea.
Graeme shed a few tears this week when he
comforted
Rosie. Well, the
poor girl was
distraught. She'd had 200
glamour pics taken and the one that the advertising company decide
to go and use only ends up putting her bust on the bus-stop in a
full frontal poster advertising drain cleaner called
Sump. Rosie cries
her eyes out and so does Graeme. He's
great. She then goes
home to tell Sally and Kev that she wants to get a boob
job. This was a
wonderful scene, very well acted, as Sally struggled, really
struggled, to remain calm while her tactless daughter twittered
on.
Over in the factory in a late
night one-to-one, Sally tells Carla about her cancer and Carla
admits that she too has been through a breast cancer scare but she
came out ok. Meanwhile
Sophie and Rosie are certain that Kev and Sally have something on
their minds and assume their parents are going to
split. They confront
Kev and Sally and so Sally tells them both the truth too, there's
much crying and hugging and it's really very
sad.
And finally this week, the opening bars of Sheena
Easton's 9-to-5 ring out as Mary returns to the
Street.
Norris was a
little upset when she went away last time so I don't quite
understand why he's so uppity and scared now that she's
returned. She invites
him for dinner in her
four wheel drive but Norris turns her
down, preferring the Rovers instead and calls her
motorhome: "A venus
fly tray with central locking."
And that's just about that for this
week.
Coronation Street
writers this week were Peter Whalley, Julie Jones, Daran
Little, Jan McVerry and Mark Wadlow.
Glenda Young
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