Bob opens the cafe 24 hours a day

Bob opens the cafe 24 hours a day
Bob opens the cafe 24 hours a day

Bob and Brenda try to come up with ideas to save the business. Nathan pops into the shop and mentions that a project he's working on will bring scores of workmen to the village, and they'll be working through the night. Bob decides to open the cafe up 24 hours. Lisa is horrified that the Dingles actions will make Bob an absent dad from the twins and she tells Zak he's failed the family. Gennie is furious with her family for stealing from Bob and when Lisa tries to apologise on behalf of the family Gennie says she wants nothing to do with them until they pay the money back. Gennie tries to salve her conscience by offering to work in the night cafe and Bob is delighted. Mark is annoyed with Nathan when he accuses Maisie of seeing Andy behind their backs. Maisie denies it, but later tells a worried Andy that Nathan is on to them. Maisie decides to throw her parents off the scent by getting Marlon to pretend to be her boyfriend in return for putting in a good word with Natasha for him over the Home Farm catering. Mark and Nathan are surprised that Maisie's dating Marlon, but they're just relieved it's not Andy! Click here to watch whatsontv.co.uk's new weekly soaps video preview, the Soap Scoop Get all the latest soap gossip delivered straight to your door. Subscribe to Soaplife magazine today

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.