Lexi sends Nicola into early labour
Carl, Lexi and Rodney wait anxiously in the hospital for news about Nicola. A guilty Lexi tries to apologise to Nicola when she comes round but only enrages Nicola further and sends her into an early labour. Lexi is horrified and when Carl makes it clear she will be at fault if Nicola loses her baby she walks out and Carl does nothing to stop her. Jimmy rushes to Nicola's side and Nicola is given drugs to halt her labour. Carl apologises for Lexi's behaviour but Jimmy angrily tells Carl that shares the blame and he needs to decide whether he wants to stay with Lexi or not before he destroys her life and everyone else's. Pollard gets back from the doctors with good news after being told that his blood pressure was lower than expected. Val collars Pollard to ask him about the appointment but he cuts her off and makes it clear he's not ready to forgive her. Val is devastated and she feels even more alone when Diane insists that she wants nothing to do with her either. Also, Gennie decides to move in with Katie and Leyla; Terry gets his loan to buy out Louise as agreed as Brenda hides her money problem. Click here to watch whatsontv.co.uk's new weekly soaps video preview, the Soap Scoop
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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.