Cindy meets the mysterious Alistair

Cindy meets the mysterious Alistair
Cindy meets the mysterious Alistair

Myra's goes to Tony's food fair, knowing there'll be freebies galore. Turning up in her neck brace, Theresa pleads with her to behave. When a customer, Alistair, starts choking, Myra leaps into action, removing her neck brace and successfully performing the Heimlich manoeuvre. Alistair mistakenly thanks Cindy and Myra is unable to correct him, having to play up to her fake neck injury. Amber gives Cindy a flyer for the food fair, insistent that Tony wants her there. Later, Tony gets the shock of his life when a dolled up Cindy arrives. Humiliated, Cindy steps outside and finds herself amid the commotion of Alistair choking. He mistakenly thanks her for saving his life and producing a wad of cash, he asks her out for a drink. Cheryl walks through the village, when a hooded attacker wrestles her to the ground. Veronica rushes to a grateful Cheryl's aid and allows her to escort her home. On her way out of the village Veronica walks past Cheryl's attacker, and it becomes clear that these two have already been acquainted. Also; India's younger sister Tex turns up unannounced. She tells her that Grandpa has cut her off and she's here to sponge off India. 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.