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Fred blames Mike for setting him up with Dennis and Orchid but it's not Mike's fault and anyway, Mike's got more on his mind when his nephew Danny turns up. Mike's given him a 50% stake in Underworld. Did Mike get the Under and Danny get the World? Danny's played by Bradley Walsh, and I waited ages for him to use his catchphrase: "It's only a puppet!" but apparantly that belongs to someone else - with a similar face, similar hair and a similar career in light entertainment. I know nowt about Bradley Walsh but he's right good at being Danny, well he made me smile anyway. Not five minutes in the factory and he's got Hayley giggling and pretending she's his secretary. Sonia gets her custard creams out for him. "Where's me tea, Ahm garrspin'!" and he gets the measure of the girls especially Janice - "Who's the gobby one?" and Karen - "..and the bolshie one?". He's from that London, a ducker and diver, a bit of a geezer who's Porsche gets towed away when it turns out it still belongs to his last boss. He gets into a fight with Les and they both get black eyes. Then when the alarm goes off in the factory Tommy rushes in and tackles Danny to the ground. Another black eye and one for Tommy too. Buying the drinks in the Rovers for the girls after he turns Underworld into a sweatshop and has them working through their dinner with a pie and a cake, Danny's overjoyed to see Mike walk in the pub. With his arms round Les and Tommy and black eyes on the three of 'em, Danny tells his uncle: "Meet me two new best mates!". Oh yeah, and, framed by Tunnock's teacakes on the top shelf of the corner shop, Danny's already set his sights on Sunita.
Gail and Martin help Sarah pack her things at the flat and she moves back in with Gail. More tears. Todd's confused but Jason manages to stop being so homophobic towards him, although he's still got a long way to go. David sprays graffiti on Eileen's door and it's all a bit of a mess, the door and the situation. Sarah collapses in pain in the cafe and is taken to t'hospital where she's having a miscarriage as I type. Todd's beside himself with anger when he turns up at t'hospital and Gail lays the blame squarely on his head. Like a fedora of guilt, or maybe a beret of blame. Audrey's beside herself with emotion and you know she's having a bit of a moment when her Audrey accent wobbles and slips into Lady Sue mode, which she did in the Oasis cafe when she spies Todd with Karl. Meanwhile, Katy tells Martin she'd known all along about Todd being gay. Martin - a waste of space if ever there was one, I mean, isn't he? Anyway, he finishes with Katy and she goes home to her parents who are overjoyed to have her back but overdo the tea and bacon sandwich (aka sympathy) somewhat.
The social worker comes to see Les about Chesney as the lad's been bunking off school. It's because of the puppy that Chesney's been missing school so Shmeicel goes to live with Kirkeh at the kennels before the Dane became too Great and filled every camera angle. Fiz is beside herself with worry, she can't let Chesney go into care and between her and Les they decide to looka fter Chesney proper. Just as well then, as the social worker says Chesney can stay where he is as long as he's in school every day. Well not every day, it's half-term this week and Les forgets all about it, sending Chesney off in his uniform when most other kids were at the flicks watching Harry Potter and kicking the seat of the person in front of them, and throwing sweet wrappers around and shuffling across the row of seats 16 times to go to the toilet through the film.
Steve's got a buyer for Eileen's house. It's the perfect solution to pay off the wedding debts but all Karen can think is the best way to spend when the cheque arrives. With Eileen an emotional wreck at the minute what with her Todd being gay, her Jason being thick and her grandson little 9 weeks premature Billy Grimshaw's life in the balance, Steve tells Karen to keep schtum about the house sale.
Tracy's trolled off to Portsmouth with the baby to visit Peter. I don't know why I'm telling you this, there was no real story involved, but she's gone.
And that's just about that for this week. 7 episodes a week doth not a longer update make.
Glenda
By Glenda Young , writer of Coronation Street Weekly Updates for the internet since 1995.
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