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14th October 1974: Len Fairclough got the backs of the women of the Street up when he declared that their lack of footballing knowledge meant that they could never win a "spot the ball" competition in the paper. They formed a syndicate and won first prize - a week in the Bahamas for two. After some arguments they managed to change it to a week in Majorca for eight and so Annie, Bet, Betty, Rita, Mavis, Deirdre, Emily and Hilda found themselves under the Mediterranean sun instead of the autumnal gloom of Weatherfield. Bet set out to bag herself a man, and to no one's surprise succeeded. What did astonish everyone was the holiday romance enjoyed by Mavis with a handsome Spaniard called Pedro...
 * For more information see Episode 1434 (14th October 1974).