From last Thursday’s Coronation Street: Paul the fireman is sleeping at Gail McIntyre’s in the day as he is on night shifts and can’t get any rest at home owing to building work next door.

When he wakes, she invites him to eat with the family. “Now, I’m not Jewish,” she confides, “but I admire their tradition of chicken soup” — proffering her own version definitely not out of Evelyn Rose