Charity and Cain meet their match!

Charity and Cain meet their match!
Charity and Cain meet their match!

Jason Merrells (Cutting It, Waterloo Road, Lark Rise to Candleford) joins Emmerdale as Declan, the latest target in Charity and Cain's car-stealing scam. Back in disguise, Charity sweet-talks Declan at a bar, then swipes his car keys when he's on the phone. But Charity and Cain have driven up the wrong street this time… As Charity celebrates in The Woolpack, Declan walks in with Nikhil and Jai. Ooops. She slips out and tells Cain then tries to return the car. But Declan catches her in the act and shocks her with a proposal: rather than call the police, he wants her to meet him for a drink... Charity's not the only Dingle with a guilty conscience… As the fall-out from Olena's arrest continues, Sam feels so bad about reporting her that he decides to leave Emmerdale. The family turns on Eli, blaming him for Sam's decision. But Eli's not prepared to be the fall guy and tells Sam that Olena stayed away from him because of Zak’s threats. Now what will Sam do? One Dingle who is happy is Aaron. Jackson is helping him feel at home in the gay bar and Aaron agrees to see him again. Click here to watch whatsontv.co.uk’s 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.