Life Begins

In the first episode, Maggie's car has broken down on the day she is supposed to be welcoming the new staff to the expanded travel agents' office.

Maggie continues to rub Genevieve up the wrong way at work. At a funeral, Brenda (Anne Reid) and Eric (Frank Finlay) meet an old friend, Frank (Roy Dotrice), who they haven't seen for many years.

Phil (Alexander Armstrong) continues to hang around Maggie, even coming round in the evenings when Paul (Danny Webb) is there, and staying the night on the couch.

Phil (Alexander Armstrong) is moving out of the flat, that he can no longer afford and moving into Paul's place. Meanwhile, Paul is moving in with Maggie and the kids.

Maggie and Paul are round at Brenda (Anne Reid) and Eric's (Frank Finlay) for Sunday lunch. Maggie can't stop thinking about the kiss she had with Phil the previous night.

Things nearly end in tragedy for Maggie and her family when daughter Becca (Ace Ryan) accidentally takes a drug overdose that leaves her fighting for her life in hospital.

Desperate to find out more about Becca's overdose, Maggie reads her diary but is caught red handed, driving a wedge between the pair. At school Paul (Danny Webb) is under attack from an interfering parent governor who thinks his involvement with Maggie is affecting his teaching capabilities and threatens to contact the press.

In this the last of the series, Maggie asks Paul to come on holiday with her, as well as the kids, her parents and Clare's family for a Christmas break.