Martha blows hot and cold with Hugo

Martha blows hot and cold with Hugo
Martha blows hot and cold with Hugo (Image credit: five)

Martha breaks apart from Hugo after their kiss. It's not right, especially as it's Jack's birthday. When there's a power cut, Martha accepts Hugo's invitation to dinner. But later she changes her mind and cancels, leaving Hugo confused. Jai is making a short film for the Summer Bay Film Festival. He wants Annie to appear in it with him, but she realises it will involve kissing him, and is outraged. Jai asks Ruby and Xavier to do the kissing scene, and they oblige... and oblige and oblige. Trey and Nicole continue their romance despite Kirsty and Miles's disapproval. Nicole sneaks a hesitant Trey through her bedroom window and, the next morning, Kirsty is shocked to discover Trey in bed with Nicole. Ruby is deciding what to do for her sweet 16th. When Xavier says he wants to give her something special, Ruby then asks Xavier if he will make love to her on her birthday. Miles is getting clucky. He asks Kirsty if she would have a baby with him. Kirsty is taken aback. With Oliver being particularly demanding, Miles offers to help, but it proves one child is more than enough. Also, Irene is undecided about attending Lou's funeral. With Donna there, things could get heated. *Showing on RTE One, Thursday July 9* Click here to watch whatsontv.co.uk's weekly soaps video preview, 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.