Episode 5868 (15th October 2004)

Plot
Tracy tells Ciaran she's booked them two weeks in Portugal and she's off into town to do some holiday shopping. Ciaran wonders if she'll still like him when the money's gone. Ciaran tells Penny he sold the restaurant for £30k and that he's keeping £10k for his hard work and expenses and she can have £20k. Penny's shocked and furious that she's £50k down on her investment.

Still decorating, loved up Claire and Ashley dip their hands in the paint and print them on the wall. Ken and Deirdre arrive back from Dublin. Ken reads out a poem he's written about Deirdre. Deirdre's embarrassed. The winners of Fred's romantic competition are Ashley and Claire. Ashley proposes to Claire in front of everyone. She accepts to huge cheers from the assembled crowd.

Meanwhile, Sunita forgives Dev but wishes he'd consulted her first. Dev and Sunita are shocked when Maya suddenly arrives in the pub and venomously suggests that they should be the clear winners of the romantic competition.

Elsewhere, Charlie wonders if Les wants to buy a whirlpool bath off him. Jason finds out Violet and Sean are old friends. Jason immediately changes his tune about Sean and tells Eileen he can move back in whenever he wants.

Janice gets drunk and snogs Patrick.

Regular cast

 * Ciaran McCarthy - Keith Duffy
 * Tracy Barlow - Kate Ford
 * Sean Tully - Antony Cotton
 * Sally Webster - Sally Whittaker
 * Fred Elliott - John Savident
 * Ashley Peacock - Steven Arnold
 * Claire Casey - Julia Haworth
 * Jack Duckworth - William Tarmey
 * Vera Duckworth - Elizabeth Dawn
 * Tyrone Dobbs - Alan Halsall
 * Les Battersby - Bruce Jones
 * Mike Baldwin - Johnny Briggs
 * Deirdre Rachid - Anne Kirkbride
 * Ken Barlow - William Roache
 * Blanche Hunt - Maggie Jones
 * Eileen Grimshaw - Sue Cleaver
 * Jason Grimshaw - Ryan Thomas
 * Shelley Unwin - Sally Lindsay
 * Charlie Stubbs - Bill Ward
 * Penny King - Pauline Fleming
 * Dev Alahan - Jimmi Harkishin
 * Sunita Parekh - Shobna Gulati
 * Janice Battersby - Vicky Entwistle
 * Kevin Webster - Michael Le Vell
 * Steve McDonald - Simon Gregson
 * Karen McDonald - Suranne Jones
 * Patrick Tussel - Trevor Dwyer-Lynch
 * Violet Wilson - Jenny Platt
 * Maria Sutherland - Samia Ghadie
 * Kirk Sutherland - Andrew Whyment
 * Fiz Brown - Jennie McAlpine

Guest cast

 * Minnie Mandeville - Alice Langrish