Susan launches the Swap Shop. Ambridge news gets a little twisted in the telling.

Radio Times: Pat and Tony make business public.

Characters: David, Jennifer, Jill, Lynda, Pat, Pip, Susan, Tony

• Susan chairs the inaugural meeting of the Swap Club, and though attendance is small, they enjoy a talk on chicken keeping from Jill. Jennifer agrees to listing the possible swaps on the website, and Lynda, patronising as ever, says she’ll be offering lifts in her car.
• News of Brookfield’s withdrawal from the Digester scheme has become a little magnified in the telling, and the current information is that the whole scheme has collapsed. Susan is delighted.
• Pip returns from a session of windmill making for the Young Farmers event. When her father learns that this windmill is more Moulin Rouge than Windy Miller, he has to fight his puritanical instincts. The prospect of Pip in corset and stockings is just too much …
• Tony can’t bring himself to forward the TFA report to the county planners in case it becomes public – or at least, in case Matt gets a look at it. When Pat tells him the Digester scheme has collapsed, Tony is almost cheerful