Daniel takes Lucas from Ste

Daniel takes Lucas from Ste
Daniel takes Lucas from Ste

Daniel steps up the amount of drugs he's feeding Ste and Abi is angry about the state Ste's in. Abi is desperate to keep Lucas and realises that time is running out. Abi asks Ste to run away with her and he's stunned. Daniel's plan finally comes together when an exhausted Ste nearly shakes Lucas to stop him crying and he persuades Ste to hand Lucas over to him. Darren asks Neville if he can have the day off work to celebrate his birthday but it soon dawns on him that he's got no one to celebrate it with. Hannah feels sorry for her hubby and arranges a surprise birthday party in The Dog. Meanwhile, Steph offers to organise a birthday meal and secretly plans to reunite Darren with Jack. Steph feels unsure about her ability to be a good girlfriend and goes cold on a surprised Fernando. Steph loosens up when Fernando takes her for a romantic picnic. Steph storms off when she mistakenly thinks Fernando's laughing at her but he wins her round by setting up the picnic outside the flat and telling her how much he wants to be with her. Also, Josh discovers he hasn't got into university in London. 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.