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12th April 2000: Les Battersby had demonstrated his usual tact and diplomacy when he discovered that young Tyrone Dobbs was illiterate. For several weeks he took every opportunity to belittle the lad but when he was sentenced to 150 hours' community service for defrauding the DHSS, Tyrone got his own back. First of all, he replaced graffiti that Les had spent many hours scrubbing off walls and then, when Les's duties were transferred to North Cross Park and he further angered Tyrone by turning his hosepipe on his beloved dog Monica, he stole the boat that he had used to take him to the lake in the middle of the boating lake, leaving Les stranded on it. He duly spent a miserable and cold night in the park, unable to move from his temporary imprisonment.
 * For more information see Episode 4803 (12th April 2000).