Template:10 February

10th February 1975: Disaster struck for the Hopkins family when matriarch Megan took offence, as she easily did, to a complaint made by Betty Turpin to a tin of mincemeat that was off and demanded her money back. Several weeks earlier, Megan and her family had discovered an old birth certificate stuck behind a dresser drawer that proved that Gordon Clegg was not Maggie's son but her sister Betty was his real mother. Megan had sworn to Betty that her secret would be kept and Maggie demanded the same before flying back to husband Ron Cooke in Zaire but Megan, against all reason, wrote to Gordon in revenge and told him of his true parentage. The plan misfired as Gordon had known for several weeks about his adoption and called Megan's missive poison. He retaliated by refusing the sign over the sale of the Corner Shop to Megan and her son Idris. He, in turn, lost his temper with his dominating mother for probably the first time in his life and, deeply ashamed of her actions, forced to family to leave the Street in the middle of the night.
 * For more information see Episode 1467 (10th February 1975).