Elle's desperate call for help

Elle's desperate call for help
Elle's desperate call for help (Image credit: five)

When Elle forces some last-minute study for the next day's English exam, Donna finally admits she's feeling overwhelmed and regrets pushing Ringo away. Taking on-board Elle's advice, she tries to reconcile their relationship, but Ringo's need to concentrate on his studies still comes first. Desperately needing a job, Elle takes on the task of writing a press release for a new housing development. What appears to be a relatively mundane job turns into an exciting piece of investigative journalism when she discovers a new building development isn't all it seems to be. She's surprised to see her old boss, Josh Burns, already chasing the story and they find themselves reluctantly thrown together. But things go horribly wrong when the ladder at the proposed building site collapses and Josh is badly injured. Battling claustrophobia, Elle manages to escape and call Lucas for help. With a distressed Josh begging for her to return, Elle battles her fears to be by his side. 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.