I wouldn't know for sure if Alex Bain is mixed race or not, but he is terribly miscast because of that tight curly hair, as I think tight curly hair is inherited. Considering no one in the Barlow family, even going back to his great grandparents, had curls.
On his mothers side, well we all know Lucy was a straight haired blond, and his grandfather was played by Antony Valentine, who wasn't curly, either. I suppose we would have to think the granny we haven't seen had black tight curls, and that would explain it, but that's a bit of a long shot, really!

I wonder why Ken is driving when they normally use the train.

Its approx 4 hrs from Manchester To Portsmouth

Now we know why Tracy opened a Florist.....for no other reason than Blackburn had to engineer a way for Tracy and Carla to be in the same hotel in the same room on the same day at the same time.

PURE UNADULTERATED SOR !!!!

I think it was the same car he and Deirdre used when they went off on that little caravan/camping holiday.

Forget Sophie Webster. Stationery shops in Britain have gone into meltdown as Karren Brady, Michelle Mone, Hilary Devey, and even fashionistas Stella McCartney and Victoria Beckham are desperate to own one. Cath Kidston is designing one, such is the power of super-whizz business woman, Michelle Connor. Did she even open her big pink folder at the wedding fayre?!


BIB ^^^ Insert Tracy, Peter, or anyone else Ken has dealings with. Ken has only one expression. It's what I like to call 'The Exasperated Grimace'.

Audrey's constant expression is The Perpetually Pained.

I watched the episode last night, thought what an absolutely stupid storyline that was for the reasons you mention, and was going to mention it to my daughter. Then today, I couldn't remember what the SOR was! So, thank you for reminding me lol It was ridiculous, as you say if he was going to replace the doors, it was a blooming good job the doors they happened to have in the van were EXACTLY the same size. How about that for coincidence eh? #shakes head at the idiocy of it.

Do the writers/producer/director ever look on here to see just how stupid we think they are?

why did ken leave leanne and eva in his house?

ok im off for a 200 mile drive, see you tomorrow, switch off the lights and lock up when you leave

and no mention of Amy.
Tracey was suddenly away the night, so was Ken, so was Michelle. But they remembered the dog though

Apologies if someone has already said this (I'm watching in Canada so two weeks behind) but why doesn't Tyrone just get a mortgage on the house to raise money? Even a back street hovel like theirs has way more than 10k equity in it. Are the scriptwriters so naive that they don't realise there are thousands of young families out there managing quite well with bills to pay, no lodger contributing, and a mortgage probably in excess of what Tyrone's house is worth?

Tyrone and Fiz are as thick as mince so wouldn't think of this quite obvious solution to their money woes. If someone suggested it to them they'd probably clutch each other in alarm - mortgages are just too complicated and scary for the likes of them

He did find his own way back from Blackpool a few years back.





According to the AA Route Finder it is 241.4 miles from Manchester to Portsmouth which they say will take 4 hrs 8 minutes, but of course Ken would take at least one, and probably two breaks on the journey.


The main reason Tracey opened a florist is that InterFlora have product placed it there.

BIB, you must be Scottish using an expression like that

Leanne probably can't drive. Why can't Peter come up and collect Simon instead of sending his elderly Dad driving hundreds of miles in the dark. Maybe Ken is on a break too for a while.

No in soapland you can get a mortgage withing 24 hours or at the latest 48 hours

Amy could have been staying with her grandma Liz. She wasn't behind the bar in last nights episodes as we only saw Sean.

No. It is Corrie. He will probably drop Simon off and turn round and come straight back again

Just watched yesterdays, where there were several references to it being the day after Valentine's Day. Which meant the bistro was a bit empty on what should have been one of the busiest nights of the year.

The Kylie giving a load of 'tude to Beth was the most pathetic thing I'd ever seen. Why would you be so patently rude when your husband was in the wrong and your business was at risk? IRL you'd be kissing her arse!

Because for some reason some people have a hard time accepting that (a) the child is mixed race and (b) he's consequently mis-cast.

Nowhere will you find that stated, or who his parents are. There is no information available about him which is quite right as he's a child, being under 16. Until it is, it remains speculation.

Gail seems to have forgotten her Annex is freezing. And she needs to dig up the floor ASAP.
She is aimlessly wandering about the Street walking into shops asking what should she feed the kids for tea.
Kylie doesn't seem to be having panic attacks about it anymore.
Sarah Platt seems to have vanished off the face of the earth, and isn't lying around the place with a massive pregnant tummy at 4 months.
They better resurrect this Callum story before we all forget who the hell he was.

Who's Callum?

The dead drug dealer / Max's father / Sarah's ex boyfriend who's body is stuffed in Gail's manhole.

So Gails new fella then?

If she is into necrophilia, then possibly.

I'm not Scottish - I pinched the expression from Todd on Corrie