The Mitchells leave the Vic

The Mitchells leave the Vic
The Mitchells leave the Vic (Image credit: BBC)

Peggy slaps Archie for pushing Ronnie. Peggy is disgusted when a scantily clad Janine asks Archie to come back to bed. Peggy tells Ben and Phil that Ronnie is in hospital and she's lost the baby. Peggy draws the raffle in the bar and the punters raise a toast. Archie and Janine arrive and Peggy and the Mitchells move out. Peggy sadly hands her licensee plaque to Charlie and tells him to bin it. Christian corners Syed and tells him that it's their last chance to escape together. Christian reveals he's bought a one-way ticket for both of them to Barcelona and the taxi is booked for six o'clock. Christian waves goodbye to Jane at the nativity play and sets off. Bianca turns down Janine's offer to have them over for Christmas Day. Ricky is miserable when Janine snidely comments that he is hardly part of Bianca's family. Ricky tells Bianca that he should look for a place of his own. Tiffany reads out her letter to Father Christmas. Later, Bianca sees the last wish on the list asking that her mummy and daddy get married. Also, Mo wins Max's car in the raffle; Heather and Darren feel awkward when they're roped into the nativity play. 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.