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We voted today too. London Mayor, Greater London Assembly (two separate votes here). I wonder if they were voting in Ambridge.

The Cricket Tea and Cake Commissioner

It was right after "Front Row" before the News, but it's not on the Sounds version, must only go out live.

I wonder if they were voting in Ambridge.

That’s exactly the sort of thing I would have like to hear.

But after tonight’s episode I’m afraid I’m worrying about Jakob.

•Toasting a character is absolutely the kiss of death.

• They wouldn’t be trailing Mick’s death.

• It would make sense of ‘a sad goodbye for Chris’.

Oh dear …

It sounds like multiple dramas really doesn't it?

Just listened again to the end of tonight’s episode. Was Brian just huffing about all the lovey doveyness or was he out of breath? Definitely sounded weird.

Mick gets a surname so is going to be around for a while

Mick's surname will be needed by the Crown Court Clerk when he reads out the charges.

Excellent thought, @Gonners!

I’d far rather Mick was despatched than Jakob - but I’m no longer certain it will be him …

Though I don’t like to think of poor Brian if his favourite Ambridge-resident daughter is charged with a serious criminal offence …

A couple of years ago they upped the maximum sentence for causing death by drunk driving from 14 years to life. So with one loud crunch, we could be free of both Alice and (please) Mick. In that case, Joy would visit her in prison.

Maybe Freddie reliving the past is a session where he passes on tips about surviving life in prison to his cousin.

Which cousin? Pip, Josh, Ben, Dan or Meriel?

Alice

Actually, he’d probably make a better fist of it than PatnTony did. Throw money at a good defence team and feel he’d done all that could reasonably be required of a chap. And he wouldn’t have conniptions about her being in prison-issue tracksuit bottoms.

@ZadocPDederick , Alice is a second cousin.

Just heard the preview.

still don’t get how Alice was driven back to drink by he experience with Harry and then drink drives

i I can understand her relapsing just not after all the Harry stuff

Exactly. She's his cousin.

I'd actually be quite sorry if we lost Alice, if only because she's played by a good actor. Now, if it were Pip, there would be celebrations throughout the land. Or if Alice mowed over Pip, she should be honoured, not imprisoned.

@ZadocPDederick , cousin implies a first cousin.

I think we all knew who zadoc meant

if she ran over pip then she would deserve a ticker tape parade

am thinking Denise on the way to the posh hotel? Or maybe she hits John as he’s cycling the country lanes

@Bruisername , I think differently.
I'd be sorry to lose Alice.

No, it really doesn't. People use the term interchangeably.

Agree it would be a shame to lose Alice

I would hope whoever her victim is they don’t die!!!

I wonder if Chris devastation is simply that he has to face the fact the woman he loves is never going to be someone he can be with and the mother of his daughter has self destructed.

@ZadocPDederick , people use literally to mean almost, but the two words don't mean the same thing.