Coronation Street Blog: Coronation Street Spoiler: Roy swaps dingbats for Nina

The previews are in from ITV for next week’s Corrie and Roy hosts a meeting with fellow bat watchers, Herman, Dave and Farooq. When he introduces Nina, they’re horrified by her attire and deeply suspicious of her motives. When Nina presents her homemade bat boxes to the group, Herman, Dave and Farooq are begrudgingly impressed whilst Roy is proud of her efforts.

When the bat watchers make derogatory remarks about Nina’s dress sense, Roy takes umbrage and resigns from the group. Brian steps down too out of solidarity.

When an excited Nina tells Carla how they’re meeting the group later to put up the bat boxes, Roy lies and tells her the meeting’s cancelled. Nina’s hugely disappointed. Having discovered the bat meeting hasn’t been cancelled at all, Nina wonders if Roy’s ashamed to be seen with her. Nina confronts Roy who admits he was simply trying to spare her feelings. Having stacked the bat boxes in the Woody, Roy and Nina head off for an evening’s bat watching

Glenda Young

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