Kate decides Noluthando can stay in Ambridge until at least Christmas. Christine says she will pay for the female changing rooms for the cricket team.

Radio Times: Kate chooses her side, and Harrison and Fallon celebrate

Characters: Brian, Christine, Harrison, Kate, Lynda, Noluthando, Robert

• Kate is trying to persuade Noluthando to try soya milk but she is more interested in the shoot. Kate can’t believe she is serious but maybe when she sees the full horror of it she will feel differently. Then Noluthando says she is thinking about staying longer. She doesn’t need to go back to school. She could get a job or go to college. Kate is reluctant and so Noluthando says Kate obviously loves Phoebe more than her. Kate tries to make up. Noluthando says she wouldn’t try to send her back if she knew what it was like. Her grandparents just shout and her father is off with his new bitch of a woman.
• Harrison rings Lynda and Robert to suggest they should come to a house warming party now they have competed on the house. Lynda is more interested in her reading and she has turned down Neil when he asked her to come back onto the Parish Council. She has done her time and he’ll have to find someone else.
• Kate rings Lucas to berate him over his treatment of the children and the new woman. Lucas tells him that Noluthando has been a pain for months. She has been bunking off school and drinking in illegal drinking dens. His new partner has been a saint and while he is at it, he says he is starting divorce proceedings. Kate sounds shocked but eventually agrees he can have his divorce but he can’t have Noluthando. She will give her the loving home she never had with him.
• Harrison says he is quite pleased with the way the cricket turned out, especially since at the beginning of the season they didn’t know they’d even have a team. Now just to sort out the changing rooms. At the party Robert tries to make Lynda change her mind about the Parish Council but Lynda says there are other people and he should put himself forward. After years as her “consort”, it is time he had the spotlight to himself. Harrison thanks Christine for selling the place to them. It made such a difference that it wasn’t on the open market. Christine says she has done very well out of the place so in return, she wants to fund the new changing room.
• Brian is shocked to hear that Kate wants to keep Noluthando in Ambridge. He doesn’t believe that Lucas is really the type of man to do the things Kate is claiming. And what does Jennifer think? That makes no difference to Kate. She instantly tells Noluthando she can stay.