Coronation Street Monthly Update

THERE'S BEEN movement across the cobbles when Sally and Kev Webster swap houses with Ashley and Claire Peacock. Before they move, Sally decides to take not only the light fittings but the light bulbs too and in the process causes a small electrical fire. She's not technical, that girl. Ashley and Claire move into their new, small and tatty house on the dark side of the street and discover a treasure trove upstairs in the loft that Sally and Kev never even knew was there. And so, as you can imagine, when Claire finds a set of old pop concert programmes and sells them to a dealer for £7,000, Sally isn't best pleased. I think she may have even pouted.

After buying out Liam Connor, Tony Gordon is now the new joint owner of Underworld and he wants to expand in ladies pants. Yes, Tony's got big plans for his knicker factory empire. He offers Rita the shopkeeper a hearty price for The Kabin and one that she accepts. But what will she do? Will Rita really leave the Street? Life without Rita is unthinkable, not possible, it just can't happen and I'll start the petition now. Norris sniffs at Rita that she's sold her soul for thirty pieces of silver and I can only agree. But before Tony can buy the piece of Coronation Street that is Rita's Kabin, he also needs to buy the garage from Kevin Webster and Kevin won't sell. He's happy where he is and tells Tony his price is a million quid. Tony's furious to be turned down and brings in the heavy mob to put the frighteners on Kev. If he'd had to do that to Rita there would have been trouble.

Over in the Rovers Return, Becky Grainger becomes the 50th barmaid and she did it in true Corrie style. She was all big ear-rings and cleavage when she pulled her first pints behind the bar of the nation's favourite pub. But she's going to have to do some explaining when her work colleague Michelle Connor finds out that Becky slept with her boyfriend, Steve McDonald when he was drunk. And she'll find out, those Corrie women always do; they're never as daft as they look.

Lloyd Mullaney's stitched up good and proper by Theresa. She's Jerry Morton's ex-wife who's moved in to look after Jerry as he recovers from his heart attack. She's a bad 'un, is Theresa and she cons Lloyd into thinking that he fathered her youngest child after a drunken fling well over eight years ago. Honest Lloyd says he wants to do the right thing and he starts bonding with the lad he thinks is his son, handing over money to Theresa for his upkeep too. When he finds out that Theresa has conned him out of his hard earned cash, he takes refuge in his flat, lonely and mumbling about how evil women are.

Vernon returns from the stint with his band on the cruise ship, with a craving for Liz's pickled onions. But Liz isn't happy to have her fella back and after a bit of mascara-streaked face pulling in the back room of the pub, she tells him it's over, their marriage is a sham. Vernon loads up his bin bags and drum kit in the back of his van and goes all the way across the street where he moves in with Lloyd. It's a partnership made in heaven. In Lloyd's flat, Vernon can play his drums as loud as he likes and the two single fellas resolve to get along without women. They even have a sing song on the sofa.

Gail Platt heads to Italy to see her daughter Sarah and while she's away David throws a party where lots of young people drink too much cheap booze and throw up. It's only with the help of Gail's dad, the wonderful Ted, that the house gets back into any fit state although how they'll explain those stains on the carpet to Gail on her return is anyone's guess.

And Ken Barlow's been invited to an alumni event at Manchester University. But he's wondering whether to go. Ken isn't too sure that he wants to meet up with his peers for them to find out that he lives in constant nagging distance of his mother in law and that he works in a café serving up bacon butties. Ah, but at least he does it with style.

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