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23rd August 1978: The staff of the Rovers were delighted to hear that their pub had been chosen to appear on the cover of Newton & Ridley's new in-house magazine Over the Bar. Annie Walker told them that a photographer would be coming to take pictures of the person who best represented "the personality...the beating heart of this establishment" and obviously had herself in mind. Bet Lynch had her rival ambitions and got herself dolled-up specially, only to find Annie had done the same. The two posed for all they were worth while photographer Norman Hill snapped both posed and candid snaps in the public while Betty Turpin tried to stay in the background. Bet tried to seduce Norman while Annie got to brewery to agree that the chosen shot should not be "flamboyant". It wasn't; when the magazine arrived off the press, it was a shot of Betty and Eddie Yeats that had been chosen and all of Annie and Bet's attempts at publishing stardom had been in vain.
 * For more information see Episode 1837 (23rd August 1978).