Doug and Ste kiss!

Doug confronts Ste when he learns that he broke things off with Adam and their argument turns to passion, but Doug worries things have gone too far. Brendan decides Joel has finally paid off his debt and offers to take him out for the day - but when Brendan later returns to the club an unwelcome visitor is waiting for him... Ruby is wary of spending time with outcast Esther in public and when Maddie invites her out she has to decide who to support - the Queen Bee or her best friend. Also, Tilly hopes for reconciliation with Jen, and Cheryl and Cindy go to war over a handsome new arrival in the village.

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.