Stacey has a showdown with Lauren

Stacey has a showdown with Lauren
Stacey has a showdown with Lauren (Image credit: BBC)

Ryan is gutted when Stacey tells him that she's still leaving for Majorca with Lily despite what's happened between them. Stacey has a change of heart and heads back to the Square. Stacey confronts Lauren and warns her to stop tormenting her or she'll confess to the police herself. Meanwhile, Ryan is torn over his feelings and sleeps with Janine. Ryan is stunned when Stacey later walks into the Vic. Jane and Masood return to the Square. Christian realises that Jane was with Masood. Syed is suspicious when Jane leaves a hotel key in the Vic. Jane tells Ian she's leaving him and explains that she went to a hotel with Masood, but they didn't sleep with each other. Ian begs Jane not to leave him and after many tears and recriminations she agrees to give their marriage another go. Meanwhile, a guilty Masood makes a fuss of Zainab and signs the papers for the restaurant, even though Zainab offers to back out. Heather asks Dot if she can babysit George and a lonely Dot looks forward to it. Dot is sad when Heather changes her mind as Dot has a cold and she doesn't want George to get sick. Dot covers her feelings and says she's busy anyway. Click here to watch whatsontv.co.uk's 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.