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Audrey's pal in the world of shampoos, sets and scissors, Tony du Prez (I'd like to think he wears a quiff), has a spare place on a two week hairdressing course. Candice wants to go to learn how to perm and pin-curl but Sarah reckons the place should be hers, despite the fact she's only worked in the salon five minutes, knows nothing and cares less. After calming down Candice and smoothing things with Sarah, Audrey sends Candice away on the course.
Sick Sunita is mithered by Maya, trying too hard to show her caring side to Dev. Maya suggests that Sunita's putting too much pressure on Dev to look after while she's ill and tries to break the emotional bond between Dev and Sunita. Maya mentions Sunita's symptoms in the Rovers and Ciaran overhears when he turns his attention away from Liz's new top which looked like it had a pair of pants sewn across the cleavage. Ciaran's straight round to the shop to look after Sunita, much to Maya's merriment
Jamie gets arrested for beating up Vinnie and spends time in the cells. Danny gets Frankie to set up a meeting with Vinnie but goes along himself and asks his old pal to drop the charges against his son, which he agrees to do, for a price. The price happens to match almost exactly the cost of Danny's investment in Underworld. Which means the Baldwins are now brassic and their new home looks more likely to be on the cobbles than in Cheshire. They invite Mike and Penny to dinner and Vera comes too, baking steak and kidney pie for her first ever dinner party, imparting words of wisdom to Frankie on the trouble that wayward sons can bring to their own front door. When Frankie meets Penny she tells her she's not keen on talking business although she appreciates a nice pair of Alan's as much as anyone. And for those not fluent in cockney rhyming slang, Alan's = Alan Whicker's = knickers. Not,as I thought, Alan Titchmarsh, with which it is difficult to get things to ryhme.
Sally loses Kev's garage the Streetcars contract when she tells Dev he can no longer get his car serviced for free. Slowly losing the plot and in dire need of vitamin B6 to control those hormones, she drags Kev along to posh school Oakhill to find out about enrolling Rosie, who's resisting the move to a new school and away from her old friends that Sally reckons aren't posh enough any more. Sally's behaving like a dwarf with learning difficulties, it's not big and it's not clever.
Deirdre and Ken get tiddly on red wine in the Rovers, a lovely little scene, but they soon sober up when Tracy comes in and tells them she's left baby Amy with Blanche who's asleep in front of Richard Whiteley. Meanwhile, Blanche complains that her jigsaw of Sarah Ferguson is missing the left nostril - and we meet Blanche's friend Wanda Brinsley, who's wearing a great big hat that hides a rather familiar face.
It's Chesney's birthday and after a reminder from Fiz, Cilla wends her way into Les' house with a present for her son. Les and Janice have given Chesney a magician set but unfortunately it isn't magic enough to make Cilla disappear. Who is this magic Ian anyway? Les throws Cilla out, again, and tells her never to come back into the house. So she makes her way to the backyard instead and starts a birthday barbeque which is dampened down by Norris and his hosepipe after polite requests and then complaints have no effect on the woman. Cilla's soaked to the skin and out of her blouse and Les is wearing magician's handcuffs for a trick he was helping Chesney with - as Janice walks into the house. She tells Les the only way to stop Cilla coming to the house and ruining their relationship is to give up Chesney. It breaks Les' heart to hear Chesney has to go, but he knows Janice is right. Les tells Cilla she has to take responsibility for her son but it's clear she doesn't want him and Chesney doesn't understand why he has to leave, he thinks he's done summat wrong. And as Cilla drags a crying, confused Chesney away up the street in his jim-jams, it fair breaks yer heart.
And that's just about that for this week.
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