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This week on Corrie it looks like we’ve seen the end of evil Jade after she’s been causing weeks of problems for Fiz. Ruby blurts out that Hope’s bruises were fake after Jade coloured in the bruises on Hope’s arms. Then Evelyn and Tyrone find the phone that Jade has given Hope and uncover all of their secret texts. Social services are called, it looks like Jade’s been caught and the story’s done and dusted. But no! Hope runs away and spends the night by John Stape’s grave, waiting for Jade to take her to France, as she’d promised. Fiz breaks into Jade’s house, desperate to find Hope but finds instead ferry tickets to France and Hope’s passport. Everyone on the street is out looking for Hope but it’s Jade who finds her in the cemetery. Hope’s rushed to hospital to recover from her night spent outdoors while Jade enters Fiz’s house and Fiz loses her temper. She wallops Jade across he chops with a chopping board. Jade falls to the floor, blood pouring from her head. Is she dead? Is she cocoa. When Fiz and Tyrone answer a call at the door, Jade disappears from their house, only to return later. She’s told the cops she was mugged and Fiz gives her a cuppa. Tyrone tries to get Fiz to think about letting Jade and Hope see each other when all this blows over. But Fiz can’t forgive that easily everything that Jade has put her through.

Elsewhere this week, Shona comes out of her coma but has problems with her memory and cognition. She’s whisked off to a special recovery unit in Leeds for a few months while the actress who plays her goes on maternity leave.

Gemma and the quads are in danger this week when someone sprays the word ‘paedo’ on their window and stuffs a burning rag doused with petrol through their door. Chesney returns home from the shops in time to see the house going up in flames and rescues Gemma and the babies with Abi’s help. Anyway, to cut a very long story short, this results in the dreadful Bernie leaving the Street. And about time too.

Over at the Bistro, Abi continues to date sleazy Ray and Kev continues to be jealous. Tim’s Las Vegas wife Charlie moves in with Tim and Faye while Sally’s away. Charlie tells Tim she’ll sign the divorce paper but she needs five thousand pounds as she’s lost her job and her home. Tim wheedles he cash out of Steve and Kevin but will Charlie really give up her new home and her husband? I think Tim might have a fight on his hands. He retires to the pub for a relaxing pint only to find Charlie working behind the bar as the Rovers new barmaid. Ooh, I can’t wait for Sally to come home. There’ll be all hell to pay.

In Roy’s Rolls this week Maria and Gary are talking to Roy about Maria’s baby. “It’s a miracle,” Maria muses, to which Roy launches into a wonderful soliloquy written by Steven Fay. As you can imagine, with Roy, he debunks the idea of miracles for biological fact and even uses the words ‘sexual intercourse’ which fair made me spit out my tea. However, all may not be well for Maria after she gives baby Bertie a hug and unbeknown to her (and Daniel right now) he just might be developing measles.

And that’s just about that for this week.

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This week’s writers were Jayne Hollinson and Susan Oudot (Monday); Julie Jones and Steven Fay (Wednesday); David Isaac and Joe Turner (Friday). Find out all about the Coronation Street writing team at Coronation Street Blog: Exclusive: All Current Corrie writers online

Glenda Young

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