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11th August 1971: After many years hoping for married bliss, Emily Nugent had got the man of her dreams when photographer Ernest Bishop proposed to her. As it was also his forty-first birthday, they decided to hold a joint engagement and birthday party at the Community Centre and invited their friends and neighbours along. The spectre at the feast though was Emily's work colleague from the Mark Brittain Warehouse, Mavis Riley, who was persuaded to try alcohol for the first time by Ena Sharples. She grew slightly tipsy and grew maudlin at her own single status, decrying Emily for "flaunting herself like a latter-day Rita Hayworth"...
 * For more information see Episode 1103 (11th August 1971).