Coronation Street Weekly Update, September 6 2010

This week the update comes to you before it heads off on holiday. It’s having a staycation by the British seaside and already has its anorak, stout shoes and thermos packed away in the case. And so, without any further ado, here we go with this week's Coronation Street update.

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Over at the Barlows, secrets are spilled when Lawrence Cunningham arrives. Lawrence is the son of Susan, who Ken tracked down after Norris found her old letter to Ken last week. Anyway, it turns out that Susan died so Lawrence arrived to meet Ken instead. The clues are all there; they’re both stuffed shirts, they’re both wearing ties, both love a bit of Radio 4 and take two sugars in tea. Deirdre looks from one to t’other and the penny drops straight away. “I’ll, er, put the kettle on,” she says, as two heads turn towards her in unison: “Oh, that’ll be lovely, thanks!” It takes Deirdre to point out the bleeding obvious to Ken after Lawrence has left and Ken can’t believe that he’s got yet another son. He calls Lawrence again and sits him down at the tea-table to tell him that he’s Lawrence’s father after courting his mum Susan back in ’61. “I’ll, er, put the kettle on,” says Deirdre, again as two heads turn towards her in unison, again: “Oh, that’ll be lovely, thanks!”. Not only has Ken gained a son and Deirdre gained another reason for Ken to ignore her, Lawrence has children of his own which means Ken’s got more grandchildren too. There’s Chloe who’s doing a PhD in Devon and James, of whom Lawrence didn’t say much, and when he did, he sort of mumbled and had a far-away look in his eyes. We find out the reason for this when James turns up too and there’s friction between Ken’s new son and grandson. It turns out that James being gay is the reason for Lawrence’s lack of love. Meanwhile, Peter spies what’s going on and meets Ken’s new other son and new other grandson to add to Ken’s growing collection, he could probably collect the whole set and win a tea service soon.

Molly goes into labour this week while Tyrone’s out on breakdown and Kevin goes into meltdown. Molly has contraptions and Kevin has kittens, worried sick that she’ll blurt out the truth about the baby. As Molly’s screaming and heaving in her front room under the picture of Saint Vera, Tyrone’s stuck in his truck behind a bloke in a van who won’t shift off the road. They get into a bit of an argy-bargy and the bloke throws Tyrone’s keys into flowers so he has to try to hotwire the car and that’s when the cops turn up. But instead of arresting Tyrone, they take him with blue lights flashing back to the Street where it’s all go. Unable to wait any longer for th’ambulance to arrive (where’s Nurse Platt when you need him?) Molly starts giving birth. Sally rolls up her sleeves, yells at Kevin. “Shift this flamin’ table, Kevin, I’m going to wash me hands,” and gets busy at the business end of Molly who gives birth to a baby boy just as Tyrone rushes through the door. Ah, but who’s the daddy?

Drag Queen Rosie of the Websters puts her pout out this week when sister Sophie runs away with girlfriend Sian. Sally’s beside herself with worry but can’t, at first, accept that Sophie’s gay. “It’s just a phase,” she tells anyone who’ll listen. “At least she’s not wearing Doc Martens and a plaid shirt,” says Rosie. And er, what exactly is wrong with Doc Martens and a plaid shirt? Sally’s made to see sense when Kev tells her that Sophie’s sure of her sexuality. At least she’s sure of that because she’s clearly not sure how old she is. Born in November 1994 makes her 15 years old which makes her too young to have taken her GCSEs this year at school. Oh, minor details, I know, but still. Anyway, Sophie’s ran off with Sian and left behind Sally reeling at Dev and Sunita who think the lesbians have legged it because they’re feeling guilty over Aadi’s Aacidental bump on the head when it’s little Simon Barlow to blame.

At the Rovers, Kylie spies Steve’s motorbike in the pub yard and the next thing you know, it’s been stolen to order and Kylie’s got a wad of twenty pound notes in her hand. She’s a rum ‘un and no mistake. Becky still thinks the sun shines out of her sister and refuses to believe she’s done ‘owt wrong but Kylie’s rubbed everyone up the wrong way. When it’s Kylie’s son Max’s 4th birthday, Kylie steals little Max (who steals each scene he’s in) and does a runner with him back to the Rovers. It’s up to Becky to do the grown up thing and call the social services to turn her sister in.

Gary Windass returned this week from the military to his mam and Anna’s over the moon to see her son but not best pleased when Kylie gets her lips wrapped round solider boy in the Rover’s Return.

Natasha confides to Fiz that she’s not up the duff when Fiz catches her stealing her own baby scan and presenting it to Nick as if it were her own. Oh what a tangled web she’s weaved as she continues to deceive Nicky boy. Nick’s starting to think about naming his unborn. Perhaps Ivy for a girl and Bert for a boy?

And over at Underworld, Carla gives Trevor a job as Under Manager as he works his 1 week’s notice on the bins. It’ll only end in tears and slipped gusset stitches, just you wait and see.

And that's just about that for this week.

Coronation Street writers this week were Carmel Morgan, Martin Allen, Chris Fewtrell and Jayne Hollinson.

Glenda Young
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