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8th January 1975: Gordon Clegg finally had his true parentage revealed to him when his mother Maggie admitted that she and her husband Les had only raised him; his real mother was Maggie's sister Betty Turpin, the result of an affair between Betty and a married sailor during the war. Maggie's hand had been forced by the fact that Megan Hopkins had found Gordon's birth certificate, revealing the information which had previously only been known to the persons involved. On learning this, Betty had summoned Maggie from Zaire as she was worried that the Hopkins family was going to blackmail her and preferred that Gordon heard the truth from her or Maggie. On hearing the life-changing news, Gordon got drunk to celebrate the fact that alcoholic Les wasn't his father.
 * For more information see Episode 1458 (8th January 1975).