David pays for Amy's mistake in the Scoop (VIDEO)

David pays for Amy's mistake in the Scoop (VIDEO) (Image credit: Helen Turton)

David bails Amy out in next week's Emmerdale - but her problems go from bad to worse. When Alicia steals money from the B&B, Amy fears that Val and Pollard will blame her, so asks David if he'll replace it. When he agrees, Amy takes a shine to him and invites herslef on a night with him and Leyla. But when she can't get served, Amy heads into town alone, gets drunk and is nearly run over by Cain as she staggers home... Will Cain be Amy's knight in shining armour?

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix.

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.