Annie is flattered by a Valentine's card that she's received and suspects it has come from Douglas Cresswell while Len thinks the sender could be Arthur Forsyth-Jones. Albert refuses to answer his front door to anyone. Ken isn't bothered, saying that one day without dinner or a drink will change his mind. Bill Gregory turns up in the street from his home in Glasgow after an absence of eight years. Albert rejects an offer from Tommy Deakin to take away all his material goods. Annie is horrified when Alan reveals in the Rovers that she bleaches her hair. At Annie's suggestion, Minnie resolves to get Albert out of his house. Alan tells Elsie that if they'd used her cheap lacquer on Annie's hair it would have turned green. Albert refuses Minnie and Ena's entreaties. Annie, Ena and Minnie are surprised when Bill comes into the Rovers and wonder what Elsie's reaction will be. Bill tells Annie he's here to see old friends and hears that Elsie got married. Ena guesses that he's come back to sp