Miranda and Steve quit Erinsborough

Miranda and Steve quit Erinsborough
Miranda and Steve quit Erinsborough (Image credit: five)

Bridget has passed away, and everyone's devastated, particularly Declan. At the hospital, Karl reports to Steve, Miranda and Declan that Bridget died of a blood-clot relating to the accident, and asks Declan to sign some papers for organ donation. In response, Declan leaves the hospital altogether. When Miranda and Steve make it home, they find a devastated Declan barely holding it together. Finally Rebecca returns from Portugal to find a grief-stricken household, and tries to nurture her son through his grief. However, Steve and Miranda worry that Declan's not coping and won't be able to face fatherhood alone. They decide to leave Erinsborough for good, and want to take India with them. Rebecca fights in Declan's defence but Declan agrees, Miranda and Steve should take her to Oakey, he can't look after her without Bridget. Meanwhile, the rest of the Street try to deal with Bridget's death in their own way, but the adults are concerned the young kids are having a hard time. Ironically, Callum, Sophie and Ben are worried about how the adults are dealing with it. They manage to rope everyone into a baking competition, which achieves the kids' aims: it keeps the adult's minds off the loss that's brought them together in the first place. 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.