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Coronation
Street update.
Frank’s body's found stone cold dead on the factory floor and the
police are all over the place. There's lights flashing, cops swarming and Norris
gawping. He's even handing out
bon-bons in exchange for gossip from anyone who knows anything, but nobody
does. Carla's hauled to the cop
shop as her fingerprints are found all over the whisky bottle that's been used
to kill Frank. Mind you, her
fingerprints can be found all over most of the whisky bottles in the
north-west. Unable to bear that
Carla might have murdered Frank, Peter turns himself in to the rozzers and tells
them he did it and that's when things turned a bit Spartacus in our house. "I am
Frank Foster's killer". "No, I am
Frank Foster's killer," well you get the gist. I had to open a new packet of gypsy
creams, the tension was that high.
Frank's mum Anne is beside herself with worry as the contract Frank
signed to buy Carla's Underworld shares has gone missing. Turns out Michelle nicked it from
Frank's briefcase before he was killed and she had it all the time. She gives it
to Carla who burns it, leaving the factory in her capable hands for the time
being, anyroad.
Best story of the week, for this fan, has been Dennis proposing to
Rita. Or rather, Rita letting Dennis know she wanted to be proposed to. And so
he asked and she said yes. Norris
turns rather sniffy about the whole thing, as you knew he would, he's jealous of course and wonders if
he'll go to the wedding. "I'm hardly Dennis' best man," he mopes to Rita, "No,"
she tells him, "But you are mine." And with that she gives Norris a little note
pad to write down his jottings for his wedding speech. Norris gives her a lovely
look, puts the little note pad back on the Kabin shelf and takes a much larger
one instead. A lovely little scene.
At their engagement party at the Bistro, Dennis makes a smashing speech
about how he and Reet met all those years ago. "To Rita Littlewood," he says,
raising his glass. "Who sang and danced and was the apple of my eye." To Rita,
indeed, and long may she reign.
Over at the Rovers, Karl's new satellite dish causes havoc with radio
reception at Streetcars. No one likes the new telly apart from Karl, and Stella
tells him to take it down, but he won't, not just yet. He nips out one night to the casino and
takes Sunita along for the ride. Karl doesn't tell Stella and Sunita doesn't
tell Dev. It'll just end in tears,
you know. It's clear that Karl's in
some sort of gambling debt too and he tries to fiddle Rita out of more money for
her engagement party at the Rovers than Rita wants to pay. But you can't pull
the wool over Big Red's eyes and she gives him short shrift, telling him
"Party's off!".
At Nick's Bistro, money goes missing from the till and everyone
assumes that Lewis has stolen it, but he hasn't. It's money that Eva's taken
from the till to go shopping for food. Gail and Nick turn on Lewis and even
Audrey's not best pleased to think she was starting to trust Lewis and then he
goes and nicks from Nick's. But when she finds out he didn't, well, she gets
that glint in her eye again and pops round to his for a canoodle on the
candlewick.
Eileen's doing her utmost to keep her fella sweet but it ain't easy
when her fella's wife is living with them, even if she doesn't know where she is
half the time. Because the other half of the time, she does, and therein lies
Eileen's problem. I'm loving this
storyline because it's exposing Eileen's need, greed and selfishness for a man,
any man, while highlighting how devastating Alzheimer's Disease can be, not just
for the person who's suffering from it but also for their family and
friends.
And that's just about that for this week. Remember, sign up to get these spam-free
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This week's writers were Mark Wadlow, Jayne
Hollinson, Jan McVerry and Simon Crowther. Find out more about the Coronation Street
writing team at:
http://coronationstreetupdates.blogspot.com/2008/11/exclusive-all-current-corrie-writers.html
Glenda Young
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