Coronation Street weekly update - Tina's birthday suit

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It wasn’t the first time Rita’s had her heart broken and it might not be the last. But this week Dennis Tanner managed to snap Rita’s heart in half as he drove off with Gloria Price.  Yes, Gloria wants bright lights and excitement and Dennis decides to go with her.  She pulls up on the cobbles in a bright red sports car with the top down (the car, not Gloria).  “OMG!” cries Steph when she sees the car, but it’s an e-type Jag, not an MG.  Dennis slides into the passenger seat and drives off with Gloria but not before he gives Rita the final insult. Just as Rita’s coming out of the pub with Emily, Dennis tells Gloria to slow the car down, giving him just long enough to shout out to his missus: “Sorry Rita! Bye love! Take care of yourself!”.  Oh, but she will take care of herself all right, that’s something Rita knows very well how to do.

Todd gets his way with Marcus this week after luring Marcus back to an empty house at Eileen’s.  The two of them end up snogging on the sofa before they head upstairs to inspect Todd’s duvet.  Marcus is not sure he finds the thread count to his liking and sits in the pub with his head in his hands, and his soul in turmoil. Eileen figures out what Todd’s gone and done with and to Marcus while Maria is still in the dark, for now.

Meanwhile upstairs in Peter and Carla’s flat, Tina’s there with Peter after he returns early from Paris, lying to Carla about his whereabouts and whatnot.  As Peter and Tina snuggle in bed celebrating Tina’s birthday, Steve and Lloyd spot a light on up in the flat. They reckon it’s burglars as they think Peter’s still in Paris and so they get the spare keys from Michelle and enter the flat to find out what’s going on.  What they find is more than they expected to see – it’s Tina in her birthday suit. She grabs her clothes and covers up and lies through her teeth about using Carla’s shower as her boiler’s gone off.  Peter’s going to be in hot water when Carla finds out what he’s up to, which she will do, of course, this being soap.

Amy’s bored. She’s off school during half-term and wants something to do. So, she gets Steve and Tracy to dress up in Victorian clothes for a family fun day at Manchester’s Museum of Science and Industry. It’s a convoluted plot but it works, because Tracy looks a drip in her apron and frilly cap while Steve’s in a velvet suit with a very big hat, which suits him down to the ground. At the museum Steve’s standing by the steam engines and a familiar voice starts talking – it’s Roy! He’s returned! In fact, he hadn’t been away at all, he’d just been holed up in a B&B near the museum for the last two weeks, dealing with Hayley’s death the only way he knew how – by hiding out.   Anyway, it doesn’t take long before Roy’s back on the Street and in the café where he belongs, back at work and putting apostrophes back on his signs.  A mysterious parcel arrives for him, it’s a model for his train set and it’s been sent from Hayley, who’d ordered it for him before she passed on.  He looks through photos of Hayley and tells her “thank you” in a very touching scene.  And then, as you’d expect, he gets out his train set and sets-to with the model and the tracks.

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 Joe Turner, Damon Rochefort, Mark Burt, Jan McVerry, Julie Jones. Find out all about the Coronation Street writing team at http://coronationstreetupdates.blogspot.com/2008/11/exclusive-all-current-corrie-writers.html

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