It’s been a wonderful week in Weatherfield
with Rita’s wedding to Dennis and the Jubilee Street Party taking
place too. In
fact, little else happened to let’s jump in straight away with the
biggest and best storyline of the week
first.
So this was the week when Rita was wed and
there’s a new Mrs Tanner on the Street. But getting to the Register
Office on time and without incident or accident was never going to
be Rita’s style and in true Corrie fashion, there was drama and
danger. Rita was
kidnapped and almost thrown into the canal before she got to
exchange vows and rings with Dennis.
But before we go into all things wedding,
let’s rewind just a little to find ourselves in Websters’ Garage
where Rick the drug dealer is threatening ten kinds of nastiness to
Tommy if he doesn’t take a car full of drugs to Amsterdam. As Tommy works away in the
garage stuffing the car with drugs, Tina’s in her bridesmaid’s
dress, locks Tommy in th’office and drives off to the canal with the
drugs. She rings Rick and tells him if he wants the booty back,
he’ll have to meet her at the canal and promise to lay off her and
Tommy and go after Terry for the debt instead. She’s a tough cookie
that Tina. Anyway, Rick
goes looking for Tommy on the Street but finds Rita instead, tells
her he’s her wedding chauffer and drives off to the canal to meet
Tina. She’s threatening to throw his drugs in the canal but Rick’s
playing Top Trumps and Rita in her wedding gown is 10 points while
the bag of dope is 2. “You drop that bag into the water, and I drop
this one in too,” Rick tells Tina and just when she surrenders and
throws the bag to him as he sets Rita free, shaken and stirred and
somewhat confused, the cops arrive and nick Rick. Woohoo! It’s the
end of that dire storyline and Kirsty becomes heroine of the hour as
she appears to be working as a copper again after being suspended
from her job and not just that, she’s got psychic powers too. What
the heck? Suspend all belief, there’s a wedding we have to get to so
let’s crack on.
At the Register Office, Dennis is anxious
that Rita’s not just fashionably late for her own wedding, she’s
uncomfortably and horribly well behind time. Norris turns nasty and
tells Dennis that if he hadn’t been caught comforting his ex-fiance
Norma earlier in the week, then Rita wouldn’t have jilted him.
Dennis and Norris come to blows outside the Register Office and just
as Ken intervenes to keep them apart, a cop car screams up with Rita
inside. She’s radiant, she’s Rita, she’s ready to get wed.
And so Norris takes her arm and waltzes Rita
up the aisle to the tune of “On the Street Where You Live”. “I don’t offer you the
summer of my lifetime, “ she tells Dennis as they exchange rings. “I
offer you the autumn, all warm and mellow.” My God. If you weren’t in
tears by this point, then you’d better check your pulse because you
surely must be dead. And then the newly-weds wended their way back
to the Weatherfield to join in celebrations for the Jubilee Street
Party where cake and some hotpots were served
.
Ah yes, the party. That other storyline this
week. There’s a full
list here of who dressed up as who http://coronationstreetupdates.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/pics-corries-jubilee-street-party-fancy.html and I know I can’t have been the only
Corrie fan who closed my eyes and counted to ten, wishing and hoping
that Stella dressed as Dusty Springfield will soon end up in the
middle of nowhere. So yes, there’s a
party, there’s dressing up and trestle tables but not much else
going on in the way of storylines apart from Sean being taken back
on at the Rovers because it’s the spiritual home of Betty’s Hot Pot
recipe.
There’s a raffle at the party and little
FayE wins a romantic weekend away in a luxury hotel which she gives
to Anna and Owen by way of apologising for nicking all the flowers
from the Weatherfield in Bloom entrants this week.
And in other news this week, Carla sacks
Eileen from the factory after she takes time off to attend Lesley’s
funeral. The workers
walk out in support of Eileen and Ida Clough would have been proud.
Eileen’s touched by her friends’ concern but bemused as she tells
them there really was no need – she’s got her job back on the
Streetcars Switch.
And finally this week, Karl and Sunita
almost get caught out getting jiggy in the corner shop. Dev walks
in, Karl jumps to the floor and hides behind the counter while
Sunita lies through her teeth. Oh mummy, please make it end.
And that's just about that for this week. Remember, you
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This week's writers were Mark Wadlow, Damon Rochefort,
Chris Fewtrell, Jayne Hollinson and Joe Turner. 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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