Bed Of Roses

Louisa and Holly return to Rainbow's End after their holiday in Europe with hopes of making changes after cashing in on her nugget find. But Louisa's spending and lack of attention look like it's putting a spanner in the works - not to mention the illegal prospecting going on at her home.

Louisa finds out that Nick is quite the ladies man and cannot figure out why they don't have any chemistry at all. Holly gets involved in a protest that rapidly gets out of hand when Minna finds out local factory Dairy Fleet is polluting the local waterways.

Louisa's first foray as acting editor of the Rainbow Echo is fraught with problems, with Tim continuously bumping her editorial and Gavin inserting ads over her feature piece.

Louisa, Gemma and Marg try to save Deb and Trev's marriage as Gemma discovers that perhaps her marriage is also suffering. Minna finds herself helpless to stop the Heritage Committee from falling apart as they are bullied by a farmer named Owen into selling their land.

Nick's disappointment begins to show as Louisa and Tim's relationship continues to grow. Meanwhile, Pat and Gemma's relationship is under threat because of Pat's intimacy issues and it seems everyone in Rainbow's End is aware of it.

Former editor of the Rainbow Echo Wendy Watt arrives back in town as spokesperson for Chimera Gold - an underhand mining company who specialize at buying up properties near mines around remote areas of Australia and exploiting them.

Holly tries to save the Community Garden from the clutches of Chimaera Gold and its mining exploits by pretending that she seen the extinct Golden Speckled Leaping Legless Lizard thus preventing the company going ahead with the mining.

Wendy Watt and Chimaera Gold begin to suspect that Holly's discovery of the extinct Golden Speckled Leaping Legless Lizard is a fabrication.