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Carl protests Thomas and Anya's innocence, but if they are not responsible, who is?

Initially the kids are definitely up to no good when ould Enda catches Thomas ringing the church bell, and later, in revenge, the wee hallion locks both ould Edna and Laurel in the church.

Naturally this brings back nasty memories for Laurel, who thinks of the last time she was locked in there, and is gripped by fear.

Luckily ould Enda gets out the spare key, which Ashley planted in the place after that awful fire.

Later, when flowers are stolen from the church, Laurel assumes that Thomas and Anya have been misbehaving again, but they strongly deny it.

However when both Laurel and Ashley return home, they find that the church blooms have been stuffed through their letterbox!

Carl apologises to ould Edna on the kids behalf, but she is in no hurry to bury the hatchet, and drags wee Tootsie off when Anya goes to stroke her.

The kids may have been suitably chastised, but all sorts of things start to go wrong in the village, and wee Tootsie goes missing when ould Edna lets her out for a run.

A furious Edna makes the children help her to search for her wee dog.

But could there be a dark force at work? You can bet your bottom dollar there is!

Meanwhile, lovelorn Rodney goes out on another disastrous date, but it's not all bad, for he bumps into an old buddy called Charlie (played by George Costigan, best known for the bold 1980s movie "Rita, Sue, and Bob Too!")

Charlie is now a successful property developer with a big house in France, and Rodney wastes no time in bringing him back to The Woolpack, where he soon takes a big shine to Diane.

Is she about to find 'lurve' again?

Now, as we all know Cain Dingle is a bit of a gambling man, and indeed, why else would he book a surprise wedding for Charity, leaving her no time to do all belongin' to her with a warm facecloth, never mind booking a cut and blow dry, a spray tan, a dress fitting, or nail extensions.

And there is, of course, that small matter of her calling off their engagement, and telling him to stick his ring where the sun don't shine!

Never mind the fact that the pair aren't even speaking to each other.

At the start of this week, they are bickering like divorcees, and their disagreements get so bad, that Debbie decides to fly off to a new job on the lovely Channel Island of Jersey.

Indeed, as far as Debbie is concerned, there is absolutely no way that her dad is getting away with planning a surprise wedding, and she tells Cain that Charity will flip her lid, and pass a budgie, when she finds out about it.

There is further trauma for Debbie, who has to break the news to "Aundy" that she is leaving.
He absolutely does his nut, and threatens to stop her leaving because he doesn't want to lose Sarah.

If that wasn't bad enough, Debbie bottles out of telling her folks that she's going away!

It is very clear that something is on her mind, but all Cain can think about is his forthcoming nuptials, and his plan involves getting Debbie to sort out a wee outfit for Charity to wear!

He delegates poor Chas with the task of getting the totally oblivious Charity to the registry office on time.

Everything goes up the left when Chas spots Charity driving off on a job for Carl. Driving like a demon after the van, she dreams up an excuse to make Charity do a U-turn.

As the pair actually pitch up at the registry office, Charity assumes that Olena, and Sam are about to embark on a marriage of convenience, but is absolutely aghast when she finds out that it's her big day.

So, will she say "I do"? And how will they react when they discover that Debbie is leaving?
Also this week poor, crazy, mixed up, confused Aaron is dumped by Holly, and is absolutely gutted.

It will be much harder to pretend that he's straight without a babe in tow.

Eli later takes him into town, where, totally intrigued by all the gay bars, Aaron's turmoil all boils to the surface, and he has a fight with his friend.

So a totally cheesed off Eli leaves, and Aaron considers going into one of the gay bars!

Is it time for him to come out to himself?

Now, over in Weatherfield...

Peter Barlow's drunken antics have driven us all mad, but we must remember that Peter is suffering from alcoholism, a terrible illness.

He may have a nose like a cooker hood, and have been a lying, cheating, two-timing bigamist, but we shouldn't really be casting up when he really does need help.

And to tell you the God's honest truth, I have never warmed to thon' George anyway, from the day and hour he first appeared, out of the blue, flashing the cash all round him!

Both he and Peter may be grappling over who can care for wee Simon, but it's that poor wee lad who's getting caught in the crossfire. They pay for failing to put the wee soul first this week when he runs away while in Blackpool.

What is he doing there, I hear you ask, when he should be playing with plastacine at Bessie Street Infants school?

Well, it's George who takes him there for a wee day out but, actually, what George plans to do is take him to Berkshire for good! (Sleeked, nasty ould codger!)

He hatches this devious plan after Peter is arrested for causing big trouble at his former father-in-law's posh house.

Earlier in the day, Peter arrives at George's door-step to collect Simon, and when George lies through his teeth that Simon has already gone to school, Peter insists that he will pick him up later.

However, when the wee fella is not there at home time , Peter goes back to George's like a bat out of hell. He breaks in by smashing a window, and sets the alarm off!

He then reports George for abduction, and then tries to beat the living daylights out of him.

In the middle of this fracas the police arrive, and Peter is arrested just as George's wife Eve, and a tearful Simon, arrive on the scene!

Peter spends the night in the cells and, thankfully, is released without charge. But back in Weatherfield he finds out that wee Simon has not been to school again!

Peter is pacing the floor in a frenzy when he's served an Interim Residence Order, meaning that George now has custody of wee Simon.

The wee fella keeps asking for his Dad, so ould George whisks him off to the seaside (Blackpool) to distract him!

But all the thoughts of candy-floss, and fairground rides go right out the window, when wee Simon hears his granddad telling Eve that they are not going home.

And, as the couple row, the wee boy slips away!

George reports him missing, and Leanne, Peter, and the Barlows arrive to join in the search party.
As it gets dark, wee Simon is nowhere to be seen.

Has Peter lost him for good?

Meanwhile Fiz is touched when John helps Chesney with his homework, and she tells him how pleased she is to see the two of them getting on so well! Indeed everything seems pretty peachy in the Stape household.

Of course, we will never forget John's escapades when the bold Rawwzie Webster was a pupil at the school he was teaching at. But we are doing our best to pull a veil over how he did the dirty on Fiz, and cavorted with Rawwzie, as she flung her legs to the moon on umpteen occasions. Then, of course, there was then the kidnapping of Rawwzie, his holding of her in an old cottage for weeks, and his following stint in prison.

But sure, wasn't that all ages ago?

However, it looks like John may be up to something, as we speak!

Hidden newspapers with teaching jobs circled in them? With John's criminal record teaching is well and truly out of the question.

Unless, of course, he has a cunning plan brewing.

Now as we all can tell by lookin', knicker-stitcher Kelly has been round a few corners in her time.

This week she makes a bee-line for Nicky Tilsley, and while he is not exactly smitten, he is canny enough to realize that the bimbo may have some uses. So he takes her out, legs get flung to the moon, and, the very next morning he asks her to steal the factory books for him.

Kelly, at first, is not the slightest bit keen. However when Carla later humiliates her, she decides that she owes her boss "absolutely nowt' and so she nicks every book she can.

After studying the accounts, Nick makes Carla an offer- but what will Kelly get out of it?

"Nowt"!

Also this week Tina twigs on that Gail is suspected by the Police of killing Joe.

So she absolutely flips, and orders Gail to stay away from his funeral.

This is actually quite a turnaround, because, as we will see, just the day before, the two ladies will have been comforting each other as they planned his send off.

However behind the scenes, the police investigation gathers pace, and it's only a matter of time before Tina finds out that Gail is in the frame.

Also, Audrey, Nick, and David, are grilled about Joe and Gail's relationship, while Bill and Jason (God help us all) are questioned about his financial difficulties.

Naturally Tina is fuming when she finds out about all this, and she accuses everybody of bad mouthing her dad.

As the net closes in, Gail decides to visit Sarah in Milan, but before she has time to even pack her toothbrush, the peelers call round to reveal that the couple in Cumbria have said, they saw her on the boat with Joe on the night of his death.

Gail admits that, indeed, she was on board, but then got off.

However, as the peelers leave, the penny drops for Tina that Gail is the prime suspect.

So how long will it be before Gail's banged up in the slammer!

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