Is it the end of the Road for Janeece?
After Lorraine organises an important morning meeting, she calls up Janeece and asks her to come with her to assist. An excited Janeece drops everything to help, including daughter Cheryl. In a rush to leave, she puts a note through Chalky's door and asks him to look after her girl. However, it's a while before Chalky realises, and rushes to Cheryl's aid. Sadly, she's hurt and a distraught Chalky takes her to A&E. Meanwhile, Rhiannon continues her reign of terror over Scout. After making it look like Scout wet the bed, Rhiannon then frames her when a bottle of Maggie's perfume smashes. Despite protesting her innocence, everyone thinks that Scout's the one to blame. The final straw comes when Rhiannon empties a bottle of water into her own bag, and pretends Scout did it, which leads Scout to attacking Rhiannon in the corridor. But even that doesn't stop Rhiannon, who then ends up poisoning the school out of spite. When Janeece returns to school, a dismayed Michael shouts at her and tells her that she's got a warning for her disappearing behaviour. However, a defiant Janeece retaliates and tells him that he can stick his job. She walks out, and tells Chalky that she's going to leave Waterloo Road to go and live with her mum. Chalky's upset at her decision, but feels it's the right thing for her to do. Then, Christine lands herself in trouble when she suffers alcohol withdrawal symptoms in class. When her pupils start teasing her, she flips and pushes Phoenix to the ground. Michael calls her into his office, but she lies about what went on.
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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.