Belle and Aden get engaged!

Belle and Aden get engaged!
Belle and Aden get engaged!

A surprised Aden accepts Belle's marriage proposal. She wants to get married immediately but he'd rather save for a big wedding. Rachel is also surprised - there's something she knows about that Belle hasn't told Aden. Belle asks for Rachel's help in an application to enable them to be married in two weeks. Belle tells Irene and Aden she wants to find her father for the wedding. They don't approve but are supportive. The truth is... Belle is dying, and Aden doesn't know. Aden tells Nicole he wishes he could give Belle a ring. Aden tells Gibbsy about what happened with Clint. Gibbsy asks Clint about the ring and it becomes clear they're both doing dodgy deals. Gibbsy gets Aden the ring back. Aden proposes to Belle properly and she joyously accepts. Irene can't bring herself to ditch the trawler business, but her main clients are buying fish elsewhere. She tells Aden there won't be a boat business anymore. Aden tells this to Gibbsy, who offers to run the business for nothing in exchange for a percentage. Alf asks Tony if Aden could go back to the football team but Tony refuses. Tony finds out that Aden borrowed the money to pay for an engagement ring and forgives Aden. 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.