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19th March 1980: Elsie Tanner found herself in the unusual position of offering digs for lorry drivers in the spring of 1980 after she took on Ian McAllister for the night. The one-off arrangement went well and cheerful cockney Dan Johnson was her next customer. However this developed into something more than a landlady/lodger arrangement and Elsie thought she had another romance on her hands. What she didn't know was that Dan had a girl in every town and his roving eye soon settled on Bet Lynch. Dan made his excuses to Elsie that he was going out with an old friend for the night but when she was putting out the milk bottles at 11 Coronation Street, she saw Dan dropping Bet off at the Corner Shop flat. In an instant she collected his things and threw them at him in the street, telling him that she never wanted to see him again. The next day, her temper no calmer, she went for Bet in the Rovers...
 * For more information see Episode 1979 (19th March 1980).