Lexi finds a way to have a baby

Lexi finds a way to have a baby
Lexi finds a way to have a baby

Lexi tells a sceptical Nicola and Scarlett that she and Carl have decided to postpone having IVF. Lexi is touched when Scarlett offers to pay for it out of her trust fund but she can't take her money. Nicola is suspicious about Carl's claim that they can't afford to pay for the private treatment and she confronts him but he snaps at her. Lexi is so desperate to get pregnant that she eventually caves in and asks Scarlett if she can take her up on her offer. Carl is secretly gutted. Val has spent the night in the bed and breakfast. Betty fishes for gossip but Val is too busy trying to beg Pollard for forgiveness. Pollard refuses to listen to Val's pleas and Val realises that she's getting nowhere with him. Val defiantly tells Diane that the pub is all she has left and she won't be giving it up that easily and Diane prepares for a fight. Edna is furious when she finds out from Brenda that Lily has agreed to go on the road trip with Eddy in Turner's place. Edna is determined to stop Lily doing something foolish and she confronts her sister but Lily defiantly insists that she's going no matter what Edna thinks! 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.