so Gemmas has just abandoned her never seen home due to shopping Clayton, ever heard of witness protection schemes

Obviously the reason why he thinks life is wonderful. Characters always talk like that

i could be wrong now, but i think he's had hair plugs too

it's far from hair plugs ye were reared tyrone dobbs!!

They changed the uniform at the kebab shop quickly didn't they? they were only talking about it about two episodes ago

I can never work out when that kebab shop is supposed to open, round here its about tea time. theirs seems to be about ten am

was there any explanation why Yasmeen didn't reply when Sharif called out (well, other than the plot device so she could overhear the conversation) because I missed it. seemed a bit random

No wonder they were skint!
I hope he isn't getting his mouth done, like Ivy Tilsely.

I thought that, because she ignored them before they mentioned the affair.


Mr Meldrew, I hope you have had a lovely birthday.

Thank you Meldrewman. This thread is the only one I read and has given me hours of entertainment even though I'm not a prolific poster myself. Hope Corrie continues to provide many more opportunities to pick holes in it!

She overheard Sharif and whatserface talking about something as they came in through the door which intigued her (I think whatserface said Alya hated her) and Yasmeen wanted to hear the rest so kept quiet when Sharif called out

Nice responses thanks folks ...

We're thriving much more than the programme!

I would also like to mirror what a lot of others have said. I am an occasional contributor to this thread mainly because my wife works shifts and we are sometimes up to two weeks behind on watching episodes so I am usually too late to put my points across mainly because others have already highlighted them. I also must add that if it wasn't for this thread I would have given up watching in the last couple of years as the plots and acting in the main have been terrible, but I like to watch and then read this thread as it is amusing that we all pick up on the same things.

My major gripe at the moment is with the way the writers portray the police. Now don't get me wrong I have never been in trouble with the law before myself but I am good mates with people who work in the police and although I haven't come across them in their working capacity they are god guys and I am fairly sure that not every policeman/policewomen in real life are all nasty, cocky sneering upstarts that go around with a face like thunder and assume that every person they are called out to are guilty of a heinous crime.

As soon as Aiden told Maria the police was at the door I said to my eldest son, you watch the faces of the police when the door is opened, they will be stern and horrible. Low and behold I was correct, the female policewomen in particular has probably never cracked a smile in her life..

I'm not saying there are not people that work in the police that are not like this, but not every single one surely. It must be the instructions the people that play police officers get when they get the gig, you MUST be unhelpful and rude as you are the police. Really winds me up, and bearing how often the police sniff around the Street after somebody maybe they should build the police station in the street, that would save on a lot of fuel and getting caught on the ring road.

would have made more sense for her to be in the garden, say putting rubbish in the bin and not hear him come in and call her, yet she then goes back into the conservatory and hears sharif and sonia arguing.

again us viewers come up with much better and sensible situations than the writers who are paid to do so

I'd have thought it more likely that Yasmeen would come stomping out saying "What do you mean she hates you? Nonsense! We all love you, Thingy!"

i have to say i would've done the exact same as yasmeen. they came in all shifty & secretive
"hold on until i check the house is clear...."

I cannot believe the plod would treat Maria's flat as a major crime scene and have it taped off even though Caz has supposedly gone and there was some blood on a wall. Most burglaries and break ins hardly get a visit by police these days let alone be treated as the crime of the century. At most few SOCO's would have possibly whipped through before handing out a crime number and moving on.

I was wondering if this was her cue to move to the street. Now where will she live? I hope it's not that obvious!!!



Gemma's an exceptional woman. From drug dealer's mate who disposed of a gun and was involved in his nasty dealings to Corrie comedy character, complete with daft outfits and a heart of gold. Remarkable.

That scene was very Kylie and Gail when David came home and they didn't know.

I can't believe Kate went from so desperately wanting rid of Caz and despising her to thinking Maria had done somthing to her.

Maria v Caz.

Caz the ex-soldier trained in armed and unarmed combat v Maria the haridresser and well-known local psycho, trained in using scissors.

Yep. Maria has done Caz in.

Now where exactly did she dump the body and manage it all on her own in broad daylight?

Actually, I've been racking my brain trying to think where she's going to live, I just can't figure it out!!

I thnk it's a SOR that someone like her would want to do that crappy job for a minimum wage, and travel from another area to do it. She seemed to get by alright before by just hanging around the Dog and Gun and signing on.

They do always portray the police like this, don't they. I also find it annoying, especially as they must have the worst track record of any police force anywhere, even including South Yorkshire! A grim-faced police officer will stare at the totally innocent, like Maria, or Tyrone, but the guilty will escape unscathed.

whilst on her way back from london

I am not really paying attention to this storyline for all the reasons you have listed. It makes no sense whatsoever.

Maria has been away for weeks. She befriended Caz when everyone else shunned her. She asked her, nicely, several times to find somewhere else to live. Audrey asked her. Kirk asked her. Kate told her to get lost. Sophie told her to get lost.

But now, it seems, that Maria arrived home in broad daylight and was seen by Tyrone (I think). She then went upstairs to a flat immediately over the hairdresser and batterered/stabbed Caz and possibly disposed of a body without anyone noticing. In that street where people are always bumping into each other coincidentally.

As you say, Caz - a trained soldier has been harmed by petite hairdresser. And yet people who have known Maria for years are happy to believe that. Ridiculous.

You just know, don't you, that it's a nice three bed semi, in a leafy suburb, blah,blah blah. Giving it all up for, perm any one of:

1. The Grimshaw Tardis
2. Shacking up with her boss's tribe
3. The Hovel
4. Somewhere in Chateau Nazir, now that what's-it has gone
5. The bistro cellar - plenty of room there to live

Didn't we see it once when David went looking for Kylie? It was a dump.

Wasn't it a flat or something?

And he's slimmer. It's probably that wife of his - Mrs Plastic Fantastic who used to be Killer Katy on the street but is now a completely new woman!

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Miaow! Sorry.

Happy to be corrected, but I thought that was Callum's flat