Libby tries to get through to Declan

Libby tries to get through to Declan
Libby tries to get through to Declan (Image credit: five)

Declan decides he's not able to look after India and retreats into his own despair. When Kate learns that Declan has chosen not to keep India, she tries to convince him otherwise but he's too devastated to change his mind. After a plea for help from Rebecca, Libby reminds them it's only been a day...of course he's not coping! Libby talks to Declan to give him some advice from her experience, and tries to break through. When Declan asks her how she did it she tells him she doesn't know, she just did, because Ben needed her. Finally, Declan sees how important it is to both Indy and himself that they stay together. Besides, he promised Bridget he would look after their daughter. Elle is assigned the Parker accident story, but Lucas urges that this is one story she has to drop. But seeing Steve's guilt about not knowing if he was responsible, Elle pursues the case. She's hoping to find evidence that clears Steve's conscience, but Lucas rules out maintenance issues as a possible cause because the garage serviced the Parker's car. Elle decides to ask Steph about her role in fixing the Parker's car, however Steph mistakenly thinks Elle knows about her ill-fated feelings for Lucas - and puts her foot in it. 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.