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Corrie weekly updates from 1995 Coronation Street Books by Glenda Young May 25 2019
Watching this week’s Coronation Street I tended to drift off a lot. And so you’ll forgive me, I hope, for not bringing you a proper look at the world of Weatherfield this week. It’s not holding my attention in the way I’d like it to do. I’m not engaged with the storylines and goddammit I WANT TO BE. Come on Corrie, don’t lose me, please. And with that, let’s crack on. Toyah and Imran pretend to fall out so that Toyah can move in with Leanne and Nick. She wants to find out what Nick knows about the factory roof collapse and doing some digging, she discovers that Nick ended up with a whole load of cash that he lied about, saying it was from his ex, Elsa. It’s the money he nicked from his gran, but Toyah doesn’t know that yet. In a strange scene, Toyah and Leanne “break in” to Rick the loan shark’s office to see if Nick got his cash from Rick. And that’s when I started staring out of the window and wondering what was on the other side and if I had time to put the kettle on and then there’s the seedlings that need planting in the garden, and oh my word, is that the time? Over at Streetcars, Steve’s lost his operating license after picking up a fare on the street, which he’s not allowed to do. He and Tim fall out, make up and decide to sell the business. But when Tracy finds out, she rallies round with Liz and Eileen, the three of them determined to keep Streetcars afloat. There was a funny scene when the three of them tackle Jay, the app-making boy, and get him to come down on his price for making a Streetcars app so that Streetcars can compete with GoLucky. Speaking of Streetcars, Steve has a panic when some young lads get into his cab. He’s got a baseball cab in the front of his car incase of any problems and ends up chasing the lads along the cobbles with his bat. One of them falls and gets hit by a car – he’s a promising young Weatherfield County football player. Fortunately for Steve, the lad’s fine and it’s our first look at new character Michael Bailey who’ll be joining the show with his family soon and moving into No. 3. Kirk goes off on tour this week and sings a goodbye song to Beth outside of the Rovers. After the woeful “Our souls are beautiful” he sung the other week this week’s “isn’t this hilarious?” ditty was “A nice pair of puppies.” And oh, is that the number three bus going past our house? At this hour? And then there’s the shopping to be done in the morning, and I can’t wait for the long weekend and I haven’t checked my phone in, ooh, ten minutes, there might be something interesting there. Sally suddenly decides she’s always loved horses and decides to buy one. Jenny and Yasmeen and Sinead want in on the syndicate too and they make a gentlemen’s agreement to buy an old nag called Heracles. And that’s just about that for this week. This week’s writers were Susan Oudot and Jonathan Harvey (Monday); Mark Wadlow and Steven Fay (Wednesday), Julie Jones and Ian Kershaw (Friday). Find out all about the Coronation Street writing team at Coronation Street Blog: Exclusive: All Current Corrie writers online
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Glenda Young's debut novel