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Corrie weekly updates from 1995 Coronation Street Books by Glenda Young Please donate to help Corrie Weekly Updates to survive September 19 2020 Corrie weekly updates from 1995 Glenda Young, Author of Historical Novels with Headline
Please donate so that the Corrie Weekly Updates can survive. The sinkhole at the Platts back garden is still there as big and as deep as it was this time last week. Sleazy Ray of the Bistro offers to put the Platts up in his five star hotel and David soon twigs on that something’s not right with Ray. Just why is he being so generous? Well, it turns out that Ray was the one behind the sinkhole, is he after the Platt’s house to expand his Bistro empire? It doesn’t quite might sense as Kev’s garage stands between the Platts’ and the Bistro, unless Ray is set on world domination, one cobble at a time. David recalls a memory to Ray of Barney his rabbit who he says was buried in the Platts’ garden. But this fan recalls another memory that David and the scriptwriters seem to have forgotten – he had Barney the rabbit stuffed. Over in the Kate Oates memorial ward at Weatherfield hospital, it’s all going on. Well, I say that, but to be honest, I’ve been fast forwarding through every single one of these scene because I just don’t care about Oliver, a character we don’t even know. What we do know is there’s been lots of scenes with Leanne crying, Steve struggling and Nick looking into the middle distance wondering how he can give Leanne the news that Natasha has turned up in his life with his secret son. Leanne’s child is dying, Nick’s real child has arrived and Toyah gets the go-ahead from social services to foster a child of her own. It’s a bit messy, to say the least, a complicated story that weaves and threads around Oliver, a child we hardly saw but who will now be killed off, it appears, as his life support machine is going to be switched off. Leanne can’t bear to lose her son and grasps at hope that a doctor in Germany might be able to save him, but it’s going to cost half a million quid. “We’ll find the money,” Steve said, a line that’s repeated by Tracy. Half a million quid? It’s going to take more than Emma doing a sponsored dance in the Rovers to raise that amount of cash. Meanwhile, a dead body is found in the canal and it’s Kel, Paul’s stepdad and the man who abused him as a child. When Paul and Billy are given confirmation from the cops that the body is Kel’s, Paul asks how he was murdered. Murdered? Does Paul know something the cops and Billy don’t? Billy jumps on this and Paul thinks Billy is accusing him of murdering Kel himself. PC Craig confirms that Kel’s death was an accident, it’s been caught on CCTV and Billy has some apologising to do to Paul. But is it too little, too late for Apollo of the Cobbles who is now on a slippery slope to depression. Elsewhere this week there was a wonderful scene between Dev and daughter Asha. He wants her to drop sleazy boyfriend Corey (so do I) but she wants to defy her dad, as most teenagers do. Asha tells Dev she’s leaving home as soon as she turns 16 and moving in with Corey. So Dev does what he does best, he prepares a spreadsheet for Asha showing her how much the reality of her dreams will cost her. Just when it seems as if Dev has got the upper hand and is making Asha see sense, she delivers the killer line that Corey’s parents are minted and they’ll fund the flat. More fabulous scenes with the amazing Sue Devaney this week, who plays Debbie Webster. A great actress and my favourite character by far this week. Kev takes Jack away overnight and while Kev’s away, Abi confides to Debbie that she’s craving morphine and tells her that Peter Barlow is helping her cope with her addictions. Debbie convinces Abi to reveal her demons to Kev when he returns. Abi’s unsure at first but follows Debbie’s advice. It seems as if Kev’s taken Abi’s addiction on board and can handle it and help her cope. That is, until Abi admits that her twins once found her drugs and nothing else mattered, not her kids, not Seb, nothing mattered but getting high. Kev’s face clouds over and he’s not sure about Abi any more. Can Debbie be the one to keep them together? And finally this week, new character George Shuttleworth arrives. He’s the son of the late undertaker Archie “five feet two if I’m not mistaken” Shuttleworth and Mary comes over all of a tither over George’s manly charms. And that’s just about that for this week. Remember, you can sign up to get these Corrie weekly updates by email at http://www.corrie.net/updates/weekly/subscribe.htm This week’s writers were Chris Fewtrell (Monday); Susan Oudot (Wednesday) and Debbie Oates (Friday). Find out all about the Coronation Street writing team at Coronation Street Blog: Exclusive: All Current Corrie writers online Glenda Young --
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