Is Scott really letting Cherry into his life?

Is Scott really letting Cherry into his life?
Is Scott really letting Cherry into his life? (Image credit: BBC)

Cherry has plans to meet Scott for lunch but he calls to say he's got a sudden business meeting and why doesn't she come with him? Cherry is delighted; and loves the way he is letting her more into his life. Scott and his business associates are just finishing with business when she arrives, and Cherry is on excellent form charming the socks off Scott, Paul and the others. Scott says in future if he's not available Cherry could be a point of contact or sign for deliveries. She's thrilled to be more involved. Zara arrives at campus looking harassed and ill. She phones her specialist and demands some more suitable, fast-acting treatment for her symptoms. The specialist doesn't give her the response she's looking for so she slams the phone down only to realise that Ruth and a patient are at her door and heard every word. Zara diagnoses a case of meningitis in a student and then two or three more with similar complaints in quick succession, and it doesn't take long for absolute panic to break out on campus. Also, a pirate lookalike and a Simon doppelganger make life in Letherbridge interesting. 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.