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25th November 1994: Following her divorce from Ken in February 1992, Deirdre Barlow had once again been a single woman and had enjoyed - or endured - relationships with Phil Jennings and Doug Murray. After a period of looking after her ill mother away from Weatherfield she took a holiday to Morocco where she had a romance with a twenty-one year old waiter named Samir Rachid. To everyone's surprise, he followed her back to England where he was greeted with guarded suspicion by almost everyone in the Street. When they announced their engagement, there were few cries of congratulation and Tracy Barlow especially was opposed to the match, thinking that her mother being married to a younger man was disgusting. She refused to go to the wedding but in the end couldn't keep away though she wouldn't congratulate Samir and left the registry office in tears. The day had a happier ending though when they returned to a surprise reception in the Rovers], thrown at the last minute by [[Bet Gilroy.