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And so without any further ado, here we go with this week's Coronation Street update.

Now then, cast your mind back to last week as we wander back to Weatherfield and the Websters' dilemma of what to do with shifty- baby Jack. Kevin comes up with a solution to save his relationship with Sally and offers shifty-babyJack to the even shiftier Aunty Pam and his dad Bill. Shifty- baby Jack sits in his pushchair and takes it all in. You just know he'll be back in fifteen years time roaming the cobbles looking for Kevin, with an axe in his hand and revenge on his mind. Well, would you want to live with Aunty Pam? Anyway, Pam says she'll have shifty-baby Jack but Kevin doesn't know if he can give him away. Meanwhile, Sally sheds another tear into her kitchen sink.

Elsewhere, Sunita's cleavage joins the cast of Carry on Barmaid and Karl plays barmaid bingo – eyes down, look in. I hate this storyline, it's horrible. If Sunita was always far too good for Dev – and she always was – then she's worth a million of Karl. He's sleazy, mucky, a gambler, a cheat and a thief. Run, Sunita, run! And put a sports bra on first!

Norris puts out the pansies this week as the Weatherfield in Bloom competition kicks off. "Not too sparse, not too dense, a beautiful riot of colour!" I thought he was talking about Rita's hair but it's his hanging basket he was praising instead.

Julie's rushed into th'ospickle, because as luck would have it in the world of soap, a cancellation arises and she's whipped into the ward to have her ovaries removed. A biopsy is taken and we're still waiting to find out if she has cancer or not. This is a sad and moving storyline, even if the moving part has been whisked on far too quickly.

Meanwhile, terrible Terry causes trouble for Tommy, Ti-roan and Tina. Ooh, I love alliteration, me, I always `ave. "I swear on me mother's ashes!" Terry lies through his teeth as he denies being involved with a bent councillor, as a nation booed him from our sofas for taking the name of St. Vera in vain. Terry's then troubled by thugs who turn up demanding cash, which Tommy blindly pays from his inheritance, thinking he's protecting his dad, but he's not. There's still more cash to be paid and this time the debt collector comes knocking himself, and who should it be but Rick, the nasty piece of work who hounded Tina's dad Joe McIntyre back in the day.

Poor Ti-roan, though. As if he hasn't got enough on his plate losing his bessie mate Tommy and having terrible Terry back on the Street. He gets whacked by Kirsty this week when she lamps him with a ladle after losing her job with the rozzers. Tyrone's black and blue and has a split lip but doesn't tell anyone that Kirsty caused it, he's too embarrassed and loved up, still, despite everything she's done. He even puts a word in with Carla at the factory and gets Kirsty a new job working in Underpants.

And finally this week, as Paul and Eileen are just about to set off and jet off on holiday to Cyprus, Paul gets a call from the care home to say Lesley's gone missing. He heads home to find her there and brings her back to the Street as an impatient Eileen's wondering if she's going to get abroad at all. But there's a broad (see what I did there?) on Paul's mind that takes precedence over Eileen. Paul tries to put Lesley into his car so he can drive her back to the care home and as he's pushing her in the car, she falls and bangs her head on the cobbles. It's too much for Eileen to take and she bursts into tears indoors as Lesley lays injured outside and Norris looks on with a beady look in his eye. If I were Eileen, I'd get on that bloody plane and go to Cyprus meself, I really would.

And that's just about that for this week. Remember, sign up to get these spam-free Corrie weekly updates by email at http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/corrieweeks/

This week's writers were Joe Turner, Martin Allen and Jonathan Harvey. Find out more about the Coronation Street writing team at:
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Glenda Young
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And so without any further ado, here we go with this week's Coronation Street update.

The big story of the week has been the Dirty! Dirty! Cheese! Bang! story by which I do mean of course the sad and untimely death of Mrs Lesley Kershaw in a plot device to kill her off by means of chucking a plugged-in toaster into a watery kitchen sink. So just when you thought Eileen couldn't look any more miserable than she already does, she does. The cops come round to quiz Paul and Eileen over Lesley's death and there's tears and blame at the tea-table before Eileen tells Paul to pack his bags and go.

Trowels at the ready? Dibbers at hand? Then let's get stuck in as preparations for Wibwee - Weatherfield in Bloom Week - run amuck, I mean, amok. Norris and Mary hang their pansies high but Sally's not to be out-bloomed and buys pots of flowers to decorate her house. "I might live in Weatherfield but Cheshire is my spiritual home," she coos to Norris when she finds out they don't sell Vogue-y gardening mags in the Kabin. But as the Wibbers go to war, Norris and Mary overhear insider gossip that Audrey Roberts is going to be a Wibbly judge. "Flatter her," says Mary, formulating a plan. "Women of her age like to hear summat nice."

Well, Audrey deserves to hear summat nice, that's for sure after she's caught up in David's domestics. He's lying moping on the sofa after losing Kylie and Max and no one can shift him, not until Nick comes in, tells David he's starting work at the Bistro and pushes him upstairs for a change of clothes and a bath. David doesn't take much to his job as a waiter. He strops around the Bistro, chucking menus at his gran, dumping water on the table and then smashing plates on the floor before storming out. Meanwhile, as if that wasn't enough for Gail to cope with at home, her tabard's gone all bobbly, and there's really nothing worse.

Over at Se7enth Hea7en things take a turn for the ridiculous and I'm already fed up yelling at the telly "Call the police!" but no-one seems to hear. Terry does a runner with Tirrone's inheritance from Jack, calling it "Duckworth Money”. Tommy knows he's taken the money but Tyrone thinks the money's been used to pay off loan shark Rick. Meanwhile the lone shark circles his prey and goes after Tommy to pay off Terry's debt. "Call the police!" Tommy says he can't pay as he's skint but Rick says he has to. "Call the police!" And the only way Tommy can repay Rick "Call!" is to wheedle his way back into his job at the garage "The!" and use the garage to hide drugs there for evil Rick. "Bloody Police!" Where's Tina when all this is going on? She's lying in a hospital bed – which seems to be Corrie's favourite place for their ‘strong Northern women' at the minute – either there or in a lapdancing club. She's there after Terry knocked her unconscious but he lies to Tommy and tells him Rick did it. Tina recovers of course, because they can't kill off the official sexiest woman in soap.

Over at Underpants, Kirsty starts work and everyone hates her but the feeling's reciprocal and she lets them all know just how she feels. She's not shy that way. She does however share a biscuit and a tender moment with Fiz who tells her to think on and settle down if she wants to fit in.

And finally this week, Karl and Sunita (or as I like to call them by their celebrity name TwoSmarmyTarts) get uncomfortably sexed up in a nasty kind of way. It's too painful to watch.

And that's just about that for this week. Remember, sign up to get these spam-free Corrie weekly updates by email at http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/corrieweeks/

This week's writers were Mark Wadlow, Chris Fewtrell, Simon Crowther, Debbie Oates, Carmel Morgan, Peter Whalley and Julie Jones. 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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Blogging away merrily at http://flamingnora.blogspot.com

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And so without any further ado, here we go with this week's Coronation Street update.

It's all bubbling over at the Bistro this week after Nick prises Gail's handbag open to rescue his balls as he tells Eva the cleavage he needs space and wants fun. He heads for a booze-up in town and drags David along, who's still moping after Kylie walked out. The Plattilsley lads hit a lap dancing club where Nick spots Kylie doing her stuff in a lap dancey sort of way. Before David can see her, he steers his bruv out of the club and takes him back home, where he gets bladdered on his mum's sofa. As soon as David's gone up the apples and pears to Bedfordshire, Nick returns to the club and has strong words with Kylie to find out what's going on. Anyway, Nick then puts her up in a hotel and sits in a chair by the side of the bed, watching over her. It's all quite sweet really, especially as you know Nick's looking after his sister-in-law only because he cares about his brother so much. But that's not how Eva the cleavage sees it when she finds the hotel bill in Nick's pocket and a text from Kylie thanking Nick for all his help, a text that comes with three kisses on the end.

So, Kylie's back on the Street and back together with David and they're all pulling together as a family business at the Bistro to help Nick with a big Mayoral civic dinner going on. Even Sean's helping out making Betty's Hot Pot, having defected from the Rovers with the recipe after storming out on St Ella. And that's when Eva gets her revenge. She pours peppers and chilli into the Hot Pot making it a Very Hot Pot indeed and that's when chaos breaks out. David's incensed thinking Kylie spent the night with Nick and smashes up Nick's car, there's a huge fight in the Bistro and poor Audrey and the Mayor don't quite know where to look. Not too surprisingly, Nick finishes with Eva, calling her vindictive, evil and unhinged. All of which she is, of course.

As Rita and Dennis make plans for their wedding, jealous Norris flies into a fit in the Kabin, spitting spite all over the sherbet bon-bons. When he comments that Dennis is too tight to buy Rita an engagement ring, Dennis disappears. And when he returns, it's with the most enormous piece of finger-jewellery that Corrie's ever seen, Elsie Tanner's own engagement ring now becomes Rita's. I was right touched by this scene.

Over at the salon, Maria gets a storyline that lasted all of one episode. Customer comes in, chats up pretty airhead then hairdresser and bland man go to Bistro for meal where she finds out he's a big fat fibber. All of this goes nowhere but oddly leads to Marcus paying more attention to Maria's love life than Sean would really like.

Carry on Cringing continues this week as Sunita and Karl hole up in a hotel in Didsbury for a bit of afternoon delight while we all try not to gag on our chips. Dev then suggests to St Ella that she and Karl should come for dinner with him and Sunita where he rustles up a rack of lamb and karaoke Abba before insisting the four of them go off golfing for the day. How cosy! What fun! Not!

At Weatherfield Court, Leanne and Peter start their custody battle for little Simon, which turns into a slanging match as tensions run high. The judge says she wants more reports done and the case is adjourned for a few weeks. Ken tries and fails as peace maker between his warring son and Leanne.

And finally this week, Tommy and Rick the drug dealer storyline rumbles on. I've given up caring so if you'd like to read more, cast your mind back in time to the Joe McIntyre and Rick the drug dealer storyline. You remember, it was that storyline that went on for weeks, for far too long, that outstayed its welcome when all Joe should have done and Tommy should do is Call The Police. Recycle, repeat and reduce fans… to tears of boredom.

And that's just about that for this week. Remember, sign up to get these spam-free Corrie weekly updates by email at http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/corrieweeks/

This week's writers were David Lane, Martin Allen, Ellen Taylor, Jonathan Harvey and Mark Burt. 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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Blogging away merrily at http://flamingnora.blogspot.com

Find out more about the Coronation Street Weekly Updates and why they've been written for th'internet since 1995 at http://www.corrieweeklyupdates.btinternet.co.uk

And so without any further ado, here we go with this week's Coronation Street update.

It's Kirsty's 30th birthday and she doesn't take the milestone well. Especially when she finds out that Tyrone's organised a surprise party for her. It's a surprise that gives Kirsty shock when she discovers Tyrone's invited her parents - and they've turned up! Mind you, she didn't seem to realise that her dad is the same actor who once played Peter Barlow, but she's got a lot on her mind. Kirsty's dad is a nasty piece of work, an ex-copper who used to beat up his wife. Kirsty's shock at seeing her folks turns to fury and after everyone leaves, she slams Tyrone up against the living room wall. She apologises immediately, then breaks down and cries, leaving poor Tyrone battered, beaten, bruised and more than a little confused. Run, Tyrone, run!

Karl and Sunita get jiggy again and it's more than I can bear to look at the screen when they're both on. What with closing my eyes every time they get together and blocking the side of the screen so I can't see St Ella's face either whenever she swarms into view, I'm not seeing much of my Corrie these days. Anyway, Karl and Sunita enjoy sub-duvet shenanigans in the flat above the shop just as Dev walks in showing Kevin around as he's looking for a new place to live with baby Jack. Sunita jumps out of bed and pretends to be cleaning as Karl hides in his pants in the wardrobe.

Elsewhere this week, Lesley's funeral took place. Eileen didn't know and she's sitting at her machine in Underpants stitching and bitching about Paul, who's stood right behind her in his funeral tie asking her to go to the funeral with him. He needs her, he tells her. Eileen, desperate for a storyline, desperate for a man, stands up, walks out and goes with. She gets an earful at the church from Lesley's evil sister but gives back as good as she gets before taking Paul back to the Rovers for a drink. Eileen had already decided she was going to leave Weatherfield, had put her house up for sale and was prepared to pack her bags and go. But now she's got a story and a fella, it fair puts a smile on her face and Paul rips the For Sale sign down from No. 11. But while Eileen's pleased with the change of fate, less so are David and Kylie who are suited and booted for a meeting with the bank where they're told they can have a mortgage and were planning to buy Eileen's house.

Meanwhile, the woman from Cafcass (which is, so Google tells me, the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service) chats to Simon at school about what's going on at home. He tells her he wants to live with Leanne, that he hates Carla and wants to be happy. It's news that upsets Peter when he hears it and when he relays this to Carla, she bribes Leanne with cold hard cash to do a runner and leave them alone. This little gem of a snippet gets back to Cafcass which, it's fair to say, messes up Peter's plan to show just what a stable home he and Carla have.

And finally this week, Mary takes on babysitting duties again as she watches little FAYe while Anna's at work and Rita and Dennis get excited about their wedding – but that's another week and another update.

And that's just about that for this week. Remember, sign up to get these spam-free Corrie weekly updates by email at http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/corrieweeks/

This week's writers were John Kerr, Martin Allen, Jayne Hollinson and Damon Rochefort.
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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Blogging away merrily at http://flamingnora.blogspot.com