'Hello, Mum.' Bernice makes a shock return! (VIDEO(

My god, looks who's back! It's Bernice... Gabby's mum, Ashley's ex, Nicola's sister and Diane and Rodney's daughter. Shocks all round then. And are any of them pleased to see her? Well, Diane's stunned (and wondering where she'll go on her holidays if Bernice has left Brighton...), but sympathetic when Bernice wails that her marriage is on the rocks. Ashley's shocked and wants to know when she's leaving. And Nicola's plain unimpressed. Diane's unimpressed, too, later, when Bernice sails into the bar all smiles. That girl's up to something... Paddy's not impressed by Brett the vet, who turns up late for his interview as Paddy's replacement (only while Paddy's suspended for all that silly business with Marlon over Leo, that ended with Paddy hitting a police officer). Rhona, on the other hand, is impressed after Brett helps her out with a case and offers Brett the job, telling him he can start immediately. Paddy's jealous - and that's not a good look on a bloke who's already whiny. Jimmy's another bloke who's done a lot of whining lately - and that's a lot for someone who's a born whinger. He'll probably be doing a lot more whining, too, after he agrees to go into business with Charity 50/50... Charity's determined to come out on top.

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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.