Sophie rushes to Sian's bedside

As Ryan, Michelle and Ciaran rush Sian to hospital she demands they call Sophie. She dashes to Sian's hospital bedside and is in an awful state when she hears Sian's appendix burst and they've operated. As Ryan and Sophie wait at her bedside Sophie can't help but wonder why Sian was with Ryan. John squirms in Colin's company as Fiz waits back on the street for any news. John's desperate to put Colin off going back into teaching, but Colin's more interested in Charlotte as it dawns on John that he left because they were having an affair. Will Charlotte keep quiet, especially when her husband Luke witnesses another cosy chat between John and Charlotte? Lewis strikes up flirty banter with Deirdre in the bookies and the sexual tension crackles between the pair. Meanwhile, Audrey tells Lewis she's been reassessing her life. She's going to be 70 in a weeks and thinks it's time for a change. Also, Lloyd and Cheryl have a charged hug and it looks like things might go further; Owen asks Liz on a date. Click here to watch whatsontv.co.uk's weekly soaps video preview, the Soap Scoop

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.