There are emotional scenes on next week's Coronation Street as James Bailey leaves the famous cobbles. After his footballing career at Weatherfield County came to an end after being diagnosed with a heart condition, James finds a new job and a new life in London.
Ronnie tells James there’s a youth centre near Lewisham looking for a football coach. Realising it’s close to where boyfriend Danny lives, James promises to call them straight away. An excited James tells Ronnie that he got the job at the youth centre and starts tomorrow.
In the bistro, James breaks the news to the family that he’s landed a great new job, but it means moving to the capital. Aggie, Michael and Dee-Dee bid an emotional farewell.
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Elsewhere Tim and Aggie grow closer. They join forces when Tim remembers his wedding anniversary and Aggie offers to go shopping with him to ensure he doesn’t buy Sally a totally unimaginative gift.
When Ed enquires where she’s been, Aggie makes out she had lunch with a girlfriend. Then Tim pretends to have forgotten his wedding anniversary in a bid to wind up Sally. But his plan backfires when Sally tears up his card and leaves in a huff.
Tim tracks down Sally and, apologising for his prank, presents her with a beautiful necklace for their anniversary. As a reward for his thoughtful gift, Sally decks out their home as a romantic grotto and cooks Tim a special anniversary meal.
Then a grateful Tim gives Aggie a necklace to say thanks for helping him. But Aggie can't help feeling guilty when daughter Dee-Dee admires it.
Also on Corrie a nervous Stu prepares to meet his granddaughter Eliza at Speed Daal and is delighted when the meeting goes well. But the mood changes when his wife Lucy arrives and insists that daughter Bridget and Eliza leave the restaurant immediately.
A devastated Stu watches them go. Meanwhile at number 3 Dee-Dee tells Alya that there was no trace of Stu's DNA on Charlie's bag but it will be expensive to get the evidence re-tested. When Alya spots the women leaving the restaurant she runs after them and accuses a flustered Lucy of hiding vital information linked to Stu’s case.
Believing Lucy knows more than she is letting on, Alya is determined to find the cash for the DNA test. Stu tells Yasmeen and Alya that he no longer wants to pursue his case and simply wants to leave the past in the past in the hope of reconnecting with his daughter and granddaughter.
When Dee-Dee tells Alya she has got the funding for the test, Alya keeps Stu’s wishes a secret and tells Dee-Dee everything has to go through her. When Lucy and Bridget turn up to collect Eliza, Alya spots an opportunity and invites them to stay for tea.
She collars Dee-Dee and, producing a mug that Lucy drank from earlier, insists they have it tested for DNA so they can finally know if she’s the true culprit behind Charlie’s murder. Dee-Dee is furious to discover Alya’s duplicity, but after listening to herreasoning she says she will send the cup off and if Stu changes his mind then they will have the results for him.
At the Rovers there are comical scenes with newcomer Glenda as arrives for work dressed to the nines and ready to host a quiz at the pub. But she is furious when Daisy tells her landlady Jenny is feeling better and will host the event.
When Jenny slips and twists her ankle on Glenda’s newly mopped floor, Daisy insists on taking her to A&E. As Jenny hobbles out, a victorious Glenda grabs the microphone. When Jenny returns from A&E with instructions to rest her sprained ankle she is rattled to hear how Glenda’s quiz night went down a storm with the locals and tells Daisy she believes Glenda orchestrated her accident.
Summer is embroiled in a drugs drama when boyfriend Aaron reveals he has confiscated his dad’s wallet to stop him buying booze and has discovered a bag of cannabis. Billy and Todd find a giggly Aaron and Summer in the flat, off their faces on freshly baked weed brownies.
With the bishop due to visit any minute, Billy’s appalled and sends them off to hide in the bedroom. Todd catches the bishop about to try one of the brownies and yells at him to stop.
Later Aaron’s abusive dad arrives at the garage visibly drunk and volatile and threatens Aaron over the stolen cash and weed. Father figure Paul calls at the flower shop flat and lays into Aaron for leading his adopted daughter astray.
When Paul grabs his bruised arm, Aaron winces in pain and lashes out, punching Paul in the face as Summer watches in shock. Paul tells Billy he’s reporting him to the police. But when Aaron explains to Billy that his dad regularly beats him Billy is sympathetic and heads off to stop Paul reporting Aaron.
And there's trauma for Max as he becomes a target of bullies. In the Freshco car park, Max is accosted by Blake and Chris, who nick his lunch, break his phone and douse him in water. As the lads film his humiliation, Max fights tears. A dishevelled Max appears, upset that David failed to pick him up and left him at his bullies’ mercy.
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