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18th January 2008: Jack Duckworth returns home to No.9 after an evening in the Rovers to find his wife Vera has died in her sleep while he was out. Jack is immediately overcome with grief but manages to calm down. He makes Vera presentable and sings to her. When lodgers Tyrone Dobbs, Molly Compton and Paul Clayton find out, they help Jack by phoning for an ambulance, while the neighbours offer their condolences. After fifty years of marriage, Jack and Vera had been planning to retire to Blackpool but were still deciding on a house. After Vera's funeral, Jack decides to stay in Weatherfield, as he had only agreed to the move for Vera's sake.
 * For more information see Episode 6733 (18th January 2008).