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The update this week kicks off on Christmas day where everyone's
in someone else's house for Christmas dinner. So let's set the scene as
follows: Home-alone Hayley has Christmas dinner in the flat above the salon
with Toyah, Fiz, Maria, Kirk and Les. Tyrone's with Jack and Vera (who's
waiting for Terry to arrive but of course he never does). At Emily's there
Norris, Rita, Audrey and Archie. Over at the Barlows there's Deirdre, Ken,
Peter, Shelley and Sunita although they're soon joined by Blanche who feels
surplus to requirements round at Emily's when Archie and Audrey arrive.
The Nelsons and the Platts celebrate Christmas as families in their own homes
and Tommy Nelson buys his missus a mobile phone so she can ring her old mum.
So there you have it - the Street on Christmas day and as this is Weatherfield,
all manner of things start to go wrong.
Toyah throws Les and his dinner out on the street after they
argue when Les finds out Toyah's dating her lecturer. Later, John the teacher
whisks Toyah away to Bordeaux for a romantic few days but when they return
he calls into the flat and chats up Maria while Toyah is out.
As Emily' s not feeling too well, Norris takes charge in the
kitchen and ends up knocking himself unconscious after a contretemps with
the figgy pudding, ending up in hospital then in a neck brace: "The nurses
tell me I'm lucky to be alive!". While Norris was out of the way and Emily
dozing on the sofa, Richard moves in for the kill as he leaves Gail and the
kids to get some fresh air. Sneaking over to Emily's house he pops through
the back door to ask Emily how she's feeling and when she starts to drop
off, he plans to finish her off and grabs a cushion to hold over her face.
His plan is only foiled when Rita walks in. To Audrey's relief, Norris
tells her that he believes her every word about Richard but Emily and Rita
are much less sure.
But the best Christmas dinner of all was the one at the Barlows
when Tracey waltzed in, no better than she ought to be with her: "I've left
my husband, I've left London and I've come back home to live". She's not
back five minutes before she's fixed a date with Ciaran, who's now serving
up the charm with the chips in the cafe while Roy is away. Hayley giggles
and gets damp every time Ciaran is around and Roy was more than a little
surprise to find on his return that not only is Ciaran working in the cafe
but he's also living in their spare room. But I digress, back to Tracey
Barlow who stands up Ciaran on their date and ends up in bed with Dev. Oh
yes, you heard that right, Dev. Deirdre nearly lays an egg when she finds
out and she's straight round to see Dev to get something straight between
them but he couldn't give a toss. Blanche is less than surprised to be
told that Tracey has taken off her wedding ring and thrown it in the fire:
"Well whaddya expect from a girl who got married in purple hob-nailed boots?"
she asks.
And finally this week Sarah finds Ade living rough in Sally's
old hardware shop. She wants to give him some food and look out for him
but when Candice finds out she gives Ade short shrift and marches Sarah away
from the lad who almost killed her.
And that's just about that for this week.
Glenda
By
Glenda Young
, writer of
Coronation Street Weekly Updates
for the internet since 1995.
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