Rachel's baby is born

Rachel's baby is born
Rachel's baby is born (Image credit: five)

Rachel makes it to hospital as her contractions become more frequent. Her biggest concern, however, is that Tony is AWOL. He finally arrives as Dr Young breaks Rachel's waters. But there's blood in her waters and the baby is in distress. Rachel manages to deliver the baby, but it's suffering from considerable blood loss and is unable to breathe unaided. The wait is agonising but eventually baby Harry starts breathing. Belle has a visit from Nicole, who presents Belle with a small gift and a letter from Roman for Aden. The two girls bond. Both lament that Roman won't be at the wedding, especially as he thought he might be best man. The next day Belle suggests to Aden that Nicole could be best man. Aden puts the idea to Nicole, who isn't sure. Geoff helps her realise what an honour it is. When Nicole heads over to tell Aden she'll accept, she finds Belle swallowing pills. Nicole is upset, and tackles Belle about using drugs again. Belle tries to talk her way out of it, but when Nicole is determined to go upstairs and tell Aden about the pill popping, Belle is forced to tell her the truth. The pills are medication because she's sick. In fact she's dying. 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.