Coronation Street weekly updates

January 3 2011

Happy New Year to everyone reading this. And a million thanks to Janet Waterhouse for writing the last two week’s updates. It's always hard trying to find a willing volunteer to write the Christmas episodes especially and I'm therefore very grateful indeed to Janet for taking on the task, especially as she's not a well bunny and she's got the lurgy. Get well soon Janet! But now, I'm back and without any further ado, here we go with this week's Coronation Street update.

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I can't think of a better way to start a New Year and a weekly update than to report that Tracy Barlow as found this week in a pool of blood. In the world of soap where baddies always get what's coming to them, Tracy got it bad and in the back yard of the Barlow's house. But who's caved her head in and with what? My money's on Mrs Peacock with the frying pan but it's Steve and Becky who are under suspicion. It doesn't help Steve's case that he was the one who was found next to Tracy's body with blood on his hands. But there's a list as long as your arm as to who could have attacked Tracey-luv. Perhaps it was David who she bedded upstairs at the Barlow's then joked about the size of his manhood in front of everyone at the Rovers. Perhaps it was Nick who she tried to bed in the backroom of the bookies until Leanne came in causing Barlows Interruptus, as the couple were caught in flagrante delicto which was 5-2 odds on at Aintree. And perhaps it was Gail who wanted revenge on Tracy for sexing up both her Plattilsely boys.

Over at the garage, Kev and Tyrone bicker over the bashed up big ends. They can't work together, not after what's happened, but neither want to give up their share of the firm. Kevin finds a child-minder for little Jack while Sally does some child-minding of her own when she invites Tyrone in for tea and snogs him on the doormat. Mind you, Sally's got much on her mind after finding Sophie and Sian in bed together, nude.

At the Rovers on New Years Eve, Audrey's arch-frenemy Claudia arrives and whips her big shiny red hair back and forth. “Aud!” she screams to Audrey's dismay. “Claudie!” Aud replies, to get her own back. There's a raffle and Audrey's upset when she wins a hairdo at Claudie's salon. She's eve more upset when she finds out that Claudia's hoping to open a new salon in Ashley's old butcher's shop.

Elsewhere this week, baby Hope fights on at th'opsital as Fiz and John worry and fret around th'incubator. And Owen gives Gary Windass a job in his building firm after Izzy asks her dad to take Gary on to give him summat to do. Anna's over the moon that Gary's getting out of the house as he's been locked away in his room since he came back from the war.

And that's just about that for this week.

This week's writers were Mark Wadlow, Damon Rochefort, Jonathan Harvey, new writer Ellen Taylor and Martin Allen.

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Glenda Young

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Jan 10, 2011

Greetings and welcome to another week’s worth of waffle from Weatherfield. Without any further ado, here we go with this week's Coronation Street update.

The cops are all over the cobbles this week questioning the good folk of Weatherfield about Tracy Barlow's attack. "Did you do it?” Steve asks Becky. "Did you?"she replies. Over at the Websters, Gail and David have much the same conversation. "I thought she'd done it,"David tells Audrey about Gail. Gail nods to her mum, "And I thought he'd done it.” But who has done it? Even Norris and Mary, the peripatetic newsagents, are questioned. And the copper's got an eye for a face when he recognises Mary from somewhere in his past. Mary pulls her hat down over her eyes to stop the cop from remembering where he's seen her before, but it's too late. "I remember you!"he says to which Mary retorts: "It was a very long time ago and I haven't touched a chainshaw since!”. So who did attack Tracy? My money's on Claire Peacock but when Tracy regains consciousness in th'ospickle she pins the blame on Becky who gets banged up in the cop shop. Then Claire confesses all the cops and worries that her kids will be taken into care.

Over at the Websters, there's fists flying when Daddy Bear Kevin finds out Tyrone's been sleeping in his house. But did he eat the porridge? Kev's jealous and turns nasty when he thinks Sally and Tyrone have been consoling each other just a little too much. And although they haven't, you know, done the deed, Sally lets Kevin think they have so he gets himself worked up into a rage, enough to want to hurt Sally and the girls the only way he has left to him now. He gets in an estate agent to value the house before he puts it up for sale, freezes Sally and Kev's joint bank accounts and files for divorce. When Sally reveals that she never slept with Tyrone, Kev takes this a sign that Sally wants him back and he offers to move back in with his family, bringing Molly's baby too, but that's not what Sally wants at all and so it looks like divorce number two coming up for the Websters.

Elsewhere, Owen takes Gary on as a labourer but when Gary accidentally ends up locked in the back of the van, he has a panic attack. He bangs on the inside of the van long enough for someone to hear him and come to let him out. And unfortunately for Owen, that person is him. Gary goes for him with a piece of four by two and tries to attack him, convinced that he'd locked him in the van on purpose. Izzy's upset when Owen tells her what's happened but she consoles Gary who reveals that his panic was brought on by the smell of the van bringing his ordeal in Afghanistan right back to him.

Meanwhile, for some bizarre reason out of a misplaced sense of guilt, John helps Colin Fishwick's mum Joy with her shopping and spends time with her at home. He lies, again, to Joy and tells her that he's got Colin's mobile phone number so Joy calls and leaves a message but it's John's own phone number he's given her. She doesn't yet know that her son Colin is dead, that he died in a fight with John over Charlotte and his body is buried under the knicker factory and that John murdered Charlotte. At least she doesn't know until John tells her and she has a heart attack and dies. He leaves her, dead in her chair, and rushes to th'ospickle where he and Fiz get to hold baby Hope for the first time.

At the Barlow's, Leanne and Peter return from their romantic break and it's clear by the way they're bitching at each other, that it didn't quite have the desired effect. Janice asks Leanne if she's regretting marrying Peter and Leanne gives her an unconvincing ‘no'.

And finally this week, Lloyd chauffers Chris and Maria to the red rec and back as part of the raffle prize Chris won in the Rovers on New Years Eve. I'm only putting this bit in, dull as it was, as it gives me cause to mention the wonderful Renshaw twins who were in Audrey's salon when Chris picked up Maria, having their hair done at the same time, and very possibly, in the same style.

And that's just about that for this week.

This week's writers were David Lane, Joe Turner and Simon Crowther.

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Glenda Young

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Jan 17, 2011

Greetings and welcome to another week's worth of waffle from Weatherfield. Without any further ado, here we go with this week's Coronation Street update.

Right then, let's go. This was the week that Claire and the boys Peacock left Weatherfield for France. But have they left forever? Claire did a runner to the country of frites et fromage to escape going to jail for beating up bitchy Barlow. With Becky in charge, an escape committee is formed and with her kids under her wing, high on a hill there's a lonely barmaid as Claire and the boys have to hide from the Nazis in the back ginnel as the cops storm the Rovers and torches are shone looking for the family von Peacock who are sheltering out back by the bins. It was all very Sound of Music in a cut-price kind of way. And so she's gone, with false passports and her sons but I reckon she'll be forced to return quicker than she can strum up a song on her guitar with lyrics to rhyme with ‘extradition treaty.'. Ladyohdeladyohdelady-ooh.

In the flat across the road, Peter moves back in as he's had enough of living with Deirdre and Ken. Nick does his nastiest, and succeeds, in getting Peter drinking again. He's doing it in the guise of caring for Peter, but Nick is one wet-nurse that Peter could well do without. As the pair go drinking in the Flying Horse, Ciaran catches them at it as he's there for a chef job interview and he pushes protesting Peter out of the pub in his wheelchair. He has a go at Peter when he gets him back home but you know his words about staying sober will fall on deaf ears. Ciaran then goes to see Nick to give him a piece of his mind and, I was hoping, a really hard clip round the chops but sadly that didn't happen, not this week anyroad.

Meanwhile, John Stape claims victim number three. Word of warning, Corrie folks. If you see John Stape heading your way, run, just run. It's Colin Fishwick's mum Joy who keels over dead this time after John shocks her with the news that her son's really dead. Nosy neighbor Clifford from next door wants to know what's going on and in another mad farce, John gets off scot-free, pretends he was delivering a parcel and says he knows nowt about the late Mrs F.

In the Rovers, there's dodgy business afoot when Maria dates Chris, a nasty piece of work. Maria's antennae for a nasty piece of work is spot on again, she's picked another right bad ‘un and it looks as if we're in for weeks of Maria trying to emote. And for this fan trying to care. Anyway, Chris is the ex-husband of Cheryl who's stepping out with Lloyd and Chris isn't best pleased. So he calls in a dodgy geezer to do something nasty to Lloyd only we don't yet know what it is. Tune in next week for more.

And finally this week, Eileen's got a slate loose. No, she really has. In fact she's got more than one and one of them almost falls on Rosie Webster's coiffed do as she leaves Eileen's home. The roof's in a right state and after a quote from Owen, there's bad news as Eileen can't afford to have it repaired. She tells her merry band of lodgers – currently Sean, Jason and Rosie – that their rent's going up and then takes her miserable face to the pub for a drink. With Rosie living in the Grimshaw house now, the queue for the bathroom can get rather long as she's in there doing her beauty routine: "It's cleanse, tone, vomit," says Sean.

And that's just about that for this week.

This week's writers were Jim Cartwright, Peter Whalley, Mark Burt and John Kerr. Find out more about the Coronation Street writing team.

Glenda Young
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Jan 24, 2011

This week the update's coming to you from an uncomfortable place. And so without any further ado, here we go with this week's Coronation Street update.

There's a new fella at Underworld and as luck would have it, along with Carla Connor and Underworld undies, Frank Foster brings more alliteration to the cobbles. He also brings a firm jaw and well-turned suit to the Street. But he's only on-screen a second and he's bad news. And you know any fella's a rum ‘un when they say 'Hello' to your chest instead of your eyes and as Michelle's got a very large chest area, there's a lot of ground to cover. He's got a wandering eye and a philandering mind, this Frank chap, just wait and see. Carla sends Michelle on a business meeting with Frank, a meeting that takes to the pub with a bottle of red and Michelle's not happy because it's Ciaran's last night of shore-leave before he hits the cruise liner as a chef where he's lined up a new job. Anyway, to cut a long and very dull story short, Michelle left this week and went cruising with Ciaran. I do hope he comes back.

Over at the Windasses, it's been all go this week. Firstly, a scene that had me in tears when Gary meets Quinny's mam and dad and tells them how he died. It was so sad a storyline, the Samaritans helpline was on at the end of the show. But there's also good Windass news as Anna and Eddie find out that they're getting a foster child, Faye. Eddie bakes a cake and ices it with a big, fat, F A and a Y and then squeezes in a little ‘e' on the end with his icing bag when Anna tells him he's spelled the name wrong.

In the Rovers, it's singles night and Janice scores high with her low neckline. Her saggy cleavage is eye-candy to Gaz at the bar who invites her to Tenereefee with him the very next day. Janice has a drink, goes home to pack her things, has another drink or ten and gets sent home from th'airport for being too drunk to fly. One can only hope Gaz will have a good time on his own. I know I'll be worried about him, won't you? While Janice is en-route to the th'airport in the back of a Streetcars cab, her flat is burgulated (I've made that word up) by a dodgy geezer mate of Chris, who you'll remember is the ex-husband of Cheryl who used to lapdance. Chris hides the bag of Janice's stolen goodies in the boot of the Streetcars cab and all the blame points to Lloyd, just as Chris wanted in the hope that Cheryl will split up with Lloyd and come running back to Chris.

At Eileen's, she's upset as her roof needs fixing and she's got no cash, so she goes and does summat daft. She pockets a cheque for ten grand from Carla Connor to Owen, makes it payable to herself and puts it in her bank. Owen finds out, of course, it's soap so he has to. And even though Eileen swears she hasn't touched the money (she hasn't) and she'll pay him back (she will), Owen says he'll wreak revenge (he will). He menaces her by the sofa then kisses her on the cheek as he leaves with a troubled mind: "Nighty night, petal." He's horrible, is Owen, but he's good fun to watch.

And finally this week, John Stape started burbling about murders and deaths and has a breakdown on the kitchen floor right in front of Fiz's fridge.

This week's writers were Chris Fewtrell, Jim Cartwright, Simon Crowther, Jayne Hollinson and Julie Jones.

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Glenda Young

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Jan 31, 2011

Greetings and welcome to another week's update on the goings on on t' cobbles of Weatherfield.

Eileen's worried sick over the veiled threats from Owen after she 'borrowed' 10000 pounds from the building firm. Julie knows something's up with her half-sister and eventually wheedles it out of her. With a fresh pair of eyes on the problem and a clear head, together they hatch up a cunning plan to deal with the situation. They dress in their best dark clothes and mount an assault on the builder's yard (Eileen still has a key for some reason), stealing all Owen's vital documents, showing his dodgy deals and trumped-up tax returns. They lure him to Eileen's house and confront him with their devious dossier and after handing over a cheque for the missing money, warn him that they still have the originals and if they have any more bother from him, they'll hand it all over to the authorities. Owen has a face like a slapped backside but I'm sure he won't be down for long, he's not a man to be crossed. Julie's next task is to get Eileen another job, where she doesn't have access to the company chequebook and before long she's working in packing at Underworld.

Across the road at number four, Kev has a potential buyer lined up for the house. He tells Sally that they'll be coming round and she immediately starts untidying the place. When they arrive she turns into scally Sally, which given her background isn't that difficult a transformation to make, and makes the viewer decidedly unwelcome. She isn't put off by Sally's shenanigans though and arranges a second viewing with her husband. Sally turns up the pressure this time by inviting the Windasses round to tea (don't bother dressing up) at the same time as the buyers and while drinking lager straight from the can, Eddie regales them with tales of the great community spirit on the street and how they're always in and out of each other's houses and how it's very unlikely that a tram will come off the viaduct again. This doesn't seem to be what the potential buyers want to hear.

Cheryl uncovers the loot from the burglary at Janice's in the boot of Lloyd's cab. Cheryl thinks that maybe he is responsible for the break in after all but Lloyd susses out what's what and knows that Chris is behind it. He passes the booty to the police via a third party and somehow they manage to find the culprit, Billy. Lloyd keeps quiet about Chris's involvement as he doesn't want to upset Russ and Cheryl but this incident is enough for Cheryl to finally do something about the situation and she tells Chris she wants a divorce.

Things go from bad to worse for Fiz. Her husband is in psychiatric care, Hope is taken off the ventilator but then has to be put back on again after it turns out she has a hole in her heart and on top of all her money worries, the car won't start and the repairs will cost more than it's worth. A stranger comes knocking trying to find Colin Fishwick. Curious, Fiz lets him in and pretends to be Colin's wife, which she sort of is, and finds out that Colin is the sole beneficiary of Joy's will. She tells him they don't want the money but the stranger isn't interested, he's done his job by tracking her down and hands over the details of the solicitor who's dealing with the will. With all her money problems, Fiz is tempted by the windfall.

Gary's up in court and receives a suspended sentence for his assault on the police officer. He gets called in to see his CO and despite his protestations is dishonourably discharged from the army. This comes as a bit of a blow for his parents who finally thought he had a future though they are relieved that it means he won't be going back to Afghanistan. Unfortunately it could scupper their chances of adoption as their case will have to be reassessed in light of Gary now living at home. However this ceases to be a problem for them when Gary announces that he's moving in with Izzy.

"Is there an apostrophe in Freshco's?" asks Deirdre, "Yes, after the 'o'" says Ken, "Oh" says Deirdre. She's making a to-do list and crossing things off: stuff marrow; kill fatted calf ready for the return of her prodigal daughter; lose all sense when it comes to her daughter even though she knows she's a murdering scumbag. All done. Unfortunately Tracy's out of hospital and back to annoy the viewers.

Elsewhere, Janice nearly catches Peter drinking and so he kicks her out and back to her own flat. Carla catches him lugging bottles back from Freshco and tries to get him to seek help but he's having none of it.

This week's writers were Damon Rochefort, Jonathan Harvey, Carmel Morgan, Peter Whalley and Martin Allen.

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Barry Smith