Coronation Street Weekly Update - February 2, 2010

Welcome to this week's weekly update, brought to you this ...er... week by Karen Jankel as our Flaming Nora is sunning herself somewhere warm and sandy!
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Glenda's off on her travels and she's organised a rota in the update office while she's away. I have my suspicions that she may have joined Rita on her cruise but, in the meantime, this is what's been happening a little closer to home.

This week there seems to be a bit of a dustbin theme going on. While Becky has been observed wandering aimlessly around the cobbles with a mysterious black rubbish bag clamped firmly to her chest, Janice has been seen leaping onto the side of the refuse collection lorry in protest that her overfilled bin hasn't been emptied.

Becky clearly has something far more serious on her mind but with Steve being too busy getting drunk and making an idiot of himself with his new motorbike and Liz more concerned about her bar rota than her daughter-in-law, it's down to Hayley and Roy to finally discover the truth. It transpires that Becky's mother has died and the bag contains her few worldly possessions including a set of false teeth and a table tennis bat. Becky claims her mother meant nothing to her and that she's not the least bit upset by her passing but it doesn't take a trained psychologist to work
out she's more affected than she's admitting, even to herself.

Over at the Websters' Sally seems to have taken up residence in the bath while she recovers from her operation although she does make a brief appearance for a family outing to Weatherfield General for her first session of radiotherapy. In fact, it's quite a week for breasts all round because, as Rosie explains to her Dad over the breakfast table, she's "nil by mouth" in preparation for her FF enhancement. For once in his life Kev makes a sensible decision when he decides to accompany her to the clinic. Whether by accident or design he manages to put her off the whole idea and the two of them make a swift escape before Uri the surgeon has time to sterilize his scalpel.

Meanwhile Tyrone continues his quest to win back Molly while she continues with her "cruel to be kind" approach and sulks in her flat over the shop with her supply of microwaveable meals for one. Still desperate to see Kevin, she pops round with a get well card while Tyrone follows hot on her heels, clutching a box of chocolates for Sally. The sight of Tyrone ensconced on the Websters' sofa, munching his way through a packet of ginger creams would be enough to turn any woman's stomach and in Molly's case it looks like the final straw. Not that she has any better offer on the table as Kevin has made it very clear he wants nothing more to do with her.

Dev is another person who is trying to rekindle an old romance. When he calls round to see Sunita on yet another pretext and she invites him in for coffee he believes he might be finally getting somewhere.

Romance is also in the air for Janice. After placing an ad in the Kabin for a lodger, who should turn up to see the room but the hunky bin man who refused to take away her rubbish? She can't believe her luck and when he asks, referring to the room for rent, "are you offering it to me?" her immediate response is "on a plate".

Back at the Rovers, when the truth finally comes out about Becky's mother, Liz starts to show a modicum of concern. Steve is clearly furious with Becky for not telling him but it becomes apparent that underneath it's because he really cares. However, there's one secret she still hasn't shared with anyone: the fact that she's pregnant. She finally tells her new bezzie mate Claire who is probably not the best role model when it comes to perfect pregnancies. However, Claire manages to convince her that it's not necessarily such a bad thing and before we know it, Becky and Steve are talking to each other again, she tells him, he's shocked, then delighted, she says she might not have the baby, he says it's her decision, she says she's worried she'll make a terrible mother, he convinces her she'll be brilliant, he says he would have married her even if he'd known she didn't want children, she says she'll go ahead and have the baby and they all live happily ever after. Well, at least until a week on Thursday or whenever the next falling-out occurs.

While all this is going on, Leanne is making preparations for her hard hat party to get the press interested in the new bar. The only thing she needs now is a chef. As luck and unbelievable coincidence would have it, she and Peter go out for dinner and who should come storming out of the kitchen after a row with the manager but Peter's old friend and drinking buddy Ciaran. With barely enough time to take off his chef's whites, he's back in the Rovers, chatting up anyone in a skirt and causing Peter to gaze rather
too longingly at a pint of bitter.

Later that evening Leanne and Carla decide to have a girlie night in over a bottle or six of Chardonnay and Deirdre ends up joining them. At some point they move on to the nearly-built bar where they decide to test some of the stock. Peter finds them at the end of the evening and offers to clear up. Alone and surrounded by all the booze the temptation becomes too much and, before he can stop himself, he swigs back a half-finished glass of wine. He angrily tosses the rest of the bottle in the bin but it's clear that the demon drink has struck again.

Writers this week were Mark Wadlow, Simon Crowther and Chris Fewtrell