In all fairness Julie could feasibly stay. She’s packed up her life in Scotland and has made lots of friends and is clearly part of the community. It’s just up to the powers that be to have the foresight to keep her. As a teacher she’ll also be an invaluable member of the community.

I have a feeling she'll end up leaving with her son, but I really want to be proven wrong.

Id love her to stay but a bit like Paul Bradley she may have only agreed to return for the storyline

Hopefully, if they’ve been monitoring feedback, they’ll realise Julie has proved popular and try and convince Karen Henthorn to stick around.

They have showed signs of responding to feedback. As has been mentioned, Jasmine is now showing signs of actual character rather than just being a plot driven mess. Now her ridiculous storyline is done, she’s mixing well on screen.

That was a beautiful episode to top off a beautiful week. In recent times this has meant that the next week has been appalling but hopefully it’ll keep up the standard.

It's election week next so make of that what you will (Elaine and Ian have been really good so far but I can't stand the story itself).