Aden is torn apart by Belle's letter

Aden is torn apart by Belle's letter
Aden is torn apart by Belle's letter

Irene decides to give Aden a letter from Belle that she'd been keeping for when Aden hit rock bottom. In the letter, Belle tells him to let people into his life to help him deal with her death. When Aden fails to turn up for a lunch invitation, Irene goes to visit him and finds a woman who he's clearly just slept with departing. Aden is upset and angry and shuts the door in Irene's face. Miles finds himself struggling to run the house and mind the kids now that Kirsty has returned to university so when Kirsty misses the Welcome to the Bay lunch because of problems with her uni assignment, it's the last straw. He angrily accuses Kirsty of being selfish and and storms out. Nicole is still angry with Indigo about Aden, but the two eventually clear up the misunderstanding and make up after some intervention from Sid. Sid finds he can talk to Nicole more easily than to his daughter, Indigo, but backs off when it becomes clear that Nicole has interpreted his kindness as attraction. Also, Dexter is shattered when Annie tells him she sees him as just a friend. Click here to watch whatsontv.co.uk's new weekly soaps video preview, the Soap Scoop

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Patrick McLennan

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.