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| - Sunil tells Jagadeesh he doesn't want to do the Grease themed stag do, but Dai steps in and takes the boy on a camping trip in the Brecon Beacons, where Luke and Rob bond and Luke hints at moving to Canada to make a fresh start. The girls go to a hotel for Emma’s hen party, where Stella, upset that Rob has done on the stag, gets drunk and makes a show of herself. Dai overhears Luke and Rob talking about the possibility of Luke moving to Canada and tells Paula, who reluctantly passes on the news to an intoxicated Stella, who reacts furiously and lashes out, before storming out of the hotel. (en)
- Luke has a brief first meeting with Rob, before having a chance encounter when the shop van breaks down and Rob stops to help, where it is revealed that Rob has sent a birthday card every year since Luke was born, but it was always returned. Luke later shows up at Rob’s hotel and tells him if he wants to put things right, he should come to Luke’s 25th birthday. Elsewhere, Sean gives Stella a boxing lesson, which turns into a sparring session with Joe Calzaghe. It appears Stella has knocked out the world champion, only for it to turn out to be a practical joke and she retaliates by actually knocking out Sean! At Luke’s party, Sunil’s sister, Jasminder, tries to impress Luke, but makes a show of herself with her over-the-top outfit. But Rob steals the show when he appears. Stella is shellshocked and confronts her first love.
Guest starring Joe Calzaghe (en)
- When local rugby hero Dick “The Kick” Jenkins dies, the whole town goes into mourning and Paula is asked to organise the funeral. Neil Kinnock gives the eulogy, but at the wake, it is revealed Dick didn't have a penny to his name and Paula goes into panic as she was already overdrawn. But Sean comes to the rescue again when he and Stella hold a fake raffle to raise funds. Stella later gets an unexpected surprise - Luke has been released from prison early.
Guest starring Eamonn Holmes, Neil Kinnock, Colin Charvis, Warren Gatland, Colin Jackson, Gethin Jones, Mike Phillips, Graham Price, Gareth Thomas and Shane Williams (en)
- Luke is struggling to find a job and Stella tries to protect her eldest when she finds out Luke was seen talking to local drug dealer, Keckers. Big Rae offers Luke a job as the handyman at the gym, but when Luke learns of Stella interfering, he tells his mother to keep her nose out of his business. Sean sees Luke in the street with Keckers and it all comes to a head at the “Celebrity Fun Day” when Sean confronts Luke and a huge fight breaks out. After it is broken up, Luke reveals he was giving the drugs back, before Sunil’s father, Jagadeesh, gives him a job working in the Post Office.
Guest starring Keith Chegwin, Debbie McGee and Andrew Stone (en)
- Stella worries about Michael, who is acting out of character, while Aunty Brenda and the newly flush Dai lock horns during a fraught business meeting.
First appearance of Beyonce (en)
- Still reeling from Emma’s revelation, Stella wants to keep it secret. But Emma has already told Ben, her father and grandparents and word soon gets around the rest of Pontyberry. When Emma tells Stella that Sunil’s parents want them to get married, they fall out again and Emma moves in with the Choudarys. Stella has a laundry disaster and local decorator, Sean, saves the day, later making Stella see sense out of the whole Emma situation and they are reunited at the engagement party being thrown by Sunil’s parents. (en)
- Big Alan and Celia nail their fancy dress theme as they tie the knot in front of their nearest and dearest. Guest appearance by Gino D'Acampo as himself.
Last Appearance of Big Alan and Dai Davies (en)
- Sean plans to leave Pontyberry after Stella's confession that he might not be the father of her baby, and it isn't long before the gossips get wind of this latest development. But some familiar faces are back - Luke is home from Canada, having been deported for hiding his criminal record, and Bobby has also returned - and just in the nick of time for Paula, who has reached the end of her tether with Dai. (en)
- Michael tells his smug ex-wife Jan that he has a date for the charity gala dinner... now all the lawyer needs to do is actually ask Stella. (en)
- Neighbour Michael, on the other hand, is finding it hard to settle in, and a squabble with Stella over bin etiquette, not to mention the arrival of a donkey on the street, doesn't help. A couple of Pontyberry residents are looking to start afresh, too, and while Aunty Brenda means business when she organises a meeting with Dai, Big Alan follows doctors' orders and tries to lose weight. Plus, Bobby and Daddy find themselves burdened with too many bodies, and trouble looms for Zoe and Luke after Lenny gets back in contact.
First appearance of Katie Jackson (en)
- Katie's small birthday lunch spirals out of control, culminating in a shock revelation for Stella. Pressure mounts on Luke to find some extra cash, too. (en)
- Proud parents Luke and Zoe get the ball rolling on their wedding plans. (en)
- Stella and Michael have been trying to keep their engagement a secret, however news soon gets out. Rob heads off to surgery in London, and Beyonce, Keckers and Michael end up on a Welsh TV talk show to have a DNA test to prove Jackson's parentage. Michael is proved to be the father. Although Rob's surgery appeared to be successful he suffers a massive heart attack in the recovery room and dies in front of his devastated family. Weeks later at Stella and Michael's wedding, Stella interrupts her vows to tell Michael she is pregnant. Both are delighted. As the newly weds head off to Bali on honeymoon, Karl finds a Dear John letter from Nadine, who has left Pontyberry to live with Ivan in Middlesbrough. (en)
- It's the day of Stella's graduation, but the mood is quite sombre. Stella and Michael are still at loggerheads and Aunty Brenda is a bundle of nerves ahead meeting her biological father Lord Lewellyn for the first time.
Paula Kosh arrives to celebrate with Stella. Billy has been placed with a permanent foster family. When Aunty Brenda meets Lord Lewellyn he mistakenly confuses her attention as an attempt to extort money from him and repels her. She ultimately decides that this doesn't matter, and that the man who brought her up will always be her father.
Following Stella's graduation she and Michael argue on the walk back to her party at the Frisky Fox. As the argument reaches boiling point, Stella steps out in the road distracted and is struck by a car driving at speed. As Stella lies in a coma, her friends and family, including a devastated Michael sit and pour their feelings out to her.
In her deep Coma, Stella meets Rob Morgan on the Astral Plane. He confirms that he is dead, and explains that she is not, but that she is critically ill. Rob explains that being dead is fascinating as he know what will happen to the residents of Pontyberry in the future . The pair visit friends and family, culminating at the hospital where Stella sees herself in intensive care with Michael exhausted at her side. Rob explains he is happy for Michael to be Holly's father and that he will be brilliant. He also explains to Stella that it is time for her to let him go. As Rob fades away, Stella wakes from her coma.
Soon afterwards Stella returns home. All her friends and family welcome her in the street. At the top of the street, the ghost of Rob Morgan watches them, smiling before fading away one last time.
Series Finale (en)
- With a fresh start in Chichester on the cards, will Michael see the error of his ways before it's too late? (en)
- Stella is overjoyed when sister-in-law and best friend Paula makes a surprise return to Pontyberry. Elsewhere, Big Alan worries about Celia and ex-husband Dan. (en)
- Preparations for Big Alan and Celia's impending wedding day are in full swing. (en)
- Ashley Banjo brings Got to Dance to the valleys, so Ben persuades Little Alan to enter, hoping he can win the fame and fortune needed to save the rugby club from closure. The only problem is, the would-be star has two left feet. Can Bobby's choreography do the trick? Stella attends her fancy-dress school reunion, where she takes a liking to Rob in his Tom Cruise costume, while hopes of a reconciliation between Paula and Dai look bleak after a scandalous confession.
First appearance of Zoe (en)
- Although well-acquainted with Michael between the sheets, Stella starts to wonder how serious things really are between them. (en)
- Dai is accused of benefit fraud and finds out he owes £10,000. He chickens out of telling Paula, though, opting to have one last night of passion with her before scarpering, leaving Paula a letter. After days of not hearing from him, Dai and Stella’s parents receive a postcard from Dai, leading to Stella, Paula, Sean and Luke going off in search of Dai in the Brecon Beacons, with the couple eventually sharing an emotional reunion. Stella has her date with Sean and after going back to his flat for a nightcap, they sleep together. Ben gets a letter from Rob Morgan with information regarding his family tree project and a letter for Luke and after trying to tell his mother and grandfather, Ben gives the letter to Luke. (en)
- Rob makes Stella a life-changing offer - but as chaos engulfs her family and friends, can she accept it?
Last Appearance of Dai Kosh,Sean McGaskill and Peschman Hodd (en)
- Frosty relations between Stella and Michael shows signs of thawing this week when she treats him for a bloody nose at the hospital, but it's back to trading insults after the lawyer stumbles upon an uninvited guest in his house. Emma, meanwhile, is looking forward to letting her hair down at the awards show, especially after receiving confirmation of her divorce to Sunil, and someone needs to give Luke a break - none the wise about Zoe's prison visit, he also misses out on a job on Brenda's buses. This episode includes a cameo by Nicky Clarke as himself.
First appearance of Cecila (en)
- It's Auntie Brenda's day of reckoning as she must face the town council and find out if she can keep her position as Mayor. After a surprising intervention by Clem, she gets to keep her job. Emma makes a surprise return to Pontyberry with her new 'Husband' Oak. Little Alan discovers that Ben has feeling for Cerys and the two clash at Ben's birthday party. This descends in to a food fight with all in attendance, and the two make up. Following Beyonce's poor parenting, Michael decides to push for custody of Jackson, however Beyonce causes a massive crisis for him by suggesting that he is not Jackson's father. (en)
- After the disastrous school reunion, Stella tries to forget her drunken misdemeanours by working at the undertakers, but there's nowhere to hide when she accidentally interrupts a moment of passion between Rob and Melissa. Alan discovers the rugby club is falling into the hands of a property development company, so he plans an ambitious counter-attack, while Paula offers to babysit Emma's son - only to lose the child on the way to his naming ceremony.
First appearance of George The Butcher (en)
- It's fight night in Pontyberry, and while Lenny is determined to win whatever it takes - even if it means playing dirty - Luke's mind is elsewhere as he sets his sights on Zoe. Alan remortgages his house to raise funds for the rugby club, a risky strategy if Melissa follows through with her threat to apply for sole custody of Little Alan, and Paula resorts to desperate measures to win Dai back. (en)
- Trouble looms for Stella and Michael when the latter makes a monumental mistake. Big Alan, meanwhile meets his match, and Dai organises a poker game. (en)
- After back-to-back bombshells from the doctor and Sean, Stella feels as if her life is officially over, so Aunty Brenda gets her a job at the Bap Factory, hoping she will be able to bake away the blues. But her first day takes an unsavoury turn. Twinkle-toed astrologer Russell Grant is in town to open Karl and Nadine's salon, Dai and Paula continue to have problems in the bedroom and Emma fights for her man at Sunil's student ball. (en)
- The residents of Pontyberry gather for Daddy Simpson's funeral. Paula's emotions are thrown in to meltdown with the arrival of her hitherto unknown brother, whom Daddy fathered during his time as a circus performer. Whereas at first Paula rejects him, she comes to see him as a new part of her family and the two accept each other. Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant performs at the funeral. Cerys discovers videos on Ben's laptop that show that he has romantic feelings towards her, (en)
- Election day has arrived and Aunty Brenda can almost taste victory - until, that is, a new rival enters the race. (en)
- Stella is ready to make amends with Michael, until, that is, she uncovers more secrets and lies. Elsewhere in Pontyberry, Dai Davies hits the campaign trail. (en)
- The single mother struggles to accept Luke's decision to move to Canada with Rob, and Emma's geography exam takes an unexpected turn. Meanwhile, Paula gets concerned when Dai visibly feels the pressure of his looming court appearance. (en)
- Rob makes a last ditch attempt to rekindle his romance with Stella, even offering to return to Pontyberry permanently to be with her. Stella ultimately declines. She explains she will always love Rob, but her life now lies with Michael at her side. She also, quite astutely and correctly, sees Robs attentions as a way of comforting himself against the fear of his upcoming surgery. Ivan has been offered a job in Middlesbrough to work for a highly prestigious Undertaking firm, but struggles with the thought of never seeing Nadine again. Jasminder returns home unexpectedly and is less than enamored to find that her father Jag has begun a relationship with Carol. Stella proposes to Michael on his allotment, and he delightedly accepts. (en)
- Stella accidentally shuts Michael's hand in his car bonnet - thankfully the pair are still being pally at this point. Something is bound to happen between them, though, with Stella's raging hormones just about being kept at bay by a 50 Shades of Grey-style erotic novel. Later on, a girls' night out to the local nightclub to see TV presenter and one-time X Factor star Rylan spells trouble for young Emma when she continues to cross the line with the very married Marcus. On a brighter note, Big Alan asks Celia out for dinner, and Luke has a big question for Zoe. This episode includes a cameo by Rylan Clark as himself. (en)
- Emma and Sunil kiss and make up, but if Leah has anything to do with it the young couple may not be playing happy families for long. Dai's hopes of a quick marital fix also look bleak when Paula considers turning her night away from home into a permanent arrangement, and Alan is heartbroken to discover the rugby club is closing down. Luckily for the troubled residents of Pontyberry, help is at hand in the shape of Dutch life coach Peschman, who has some wise words of guidance and a unique form of therapy.
First appearance of Peschman Hodd (en)
- White flags are raised this week as Stella calls a truce with Michael, going so far as to let him use her shower when his water runs out. The lawyer might think twice about accepting the offer again, though, following an incident involving a basketball and shattered glass. Daughter Emma, on the other hand, heads into dangerous territory, crossing the line with boss Marcus. Brenda's Buses make their maiden voyage, too, but with Brenda and Dai butting heads at every turn, surely it's only a matter of time before the business runs out of gas? Plus, jaws drop when Simpsons relaunches in an attempt to attract "classy stiffs", and Big Alan grows closer to the troubled Celia. (en)
- Following their unexpected kiss, Ivan and Nadine do their best to keep out of each other's way. Following a false alarm at the hospital Stella calls in to Rob's cottage with Beyonce in tow, only for her to go into labour in Rob's front room. Beyonce decides to name the baby boy Jackson. Beyonce and Michael put their differences aside to share time with their new child. Back at Stella's house Paula Kosh leaves an answerphone message . Daddy Simpson has passed away in New Zealand, and his body is being flown back to Wales. (en)
- While Stella struggles to move on from Michael, Celia receives a blast from the past. Aunty Brenda's political campaign hits an unexpected snag, too. (en)
- Word gets around about Sunil kissing another woman and Emma finishes with him, but they quickly reunite. But while out running errands for Jagadeesh, Luke spots Sunil with the aforementioned woman and tells Stella, who follows her future son in-law and learns he has been taking dance lessons for the wedding. Stella is surprised to learn that Alan has been in love with her since 1984. Alan later meets a woman called Nancy at a group and she takes an instant liking to him. Luke reads the letter from his estranged father and meets Rob for the first time. (en)
- Rob and Stella try to rebuild their trust in each other, but hopes of a reunion are cut short by the surprise return of Sean, who has startling news. Alan discovers he has the Casanova touch, which comes in handy when his remortgage application is rejected, and he teams up with Auntie Brenda to organise a charity game for the rugby club. Elsewhere, Emma's pent-up anger with Sunil finally reaches tipping point. (en)
- The family celebrates the arrival of Emma's baby, which hampers the wedding plans, much to the annoyance of Jasminder. Meanwhile, Luke prepares to leave for Canada, Bobby gets ready to move to Bristol with new boyfriend Steve, and Rob has some shocking news for Stella at Luke's leaving party. Guest starring James Corden.
Last Appearance of Meg Kosh (en)
- The heart-broken Dai is still missing but Paula refuses to suffer alone like her estranged partner and instead expresses her feelings at the long-awaited Got to Dance auditions, where she gives Ashley Banjo a show he'll never forget. Bobby faces his first solo funeral, only for two parties to arrive at the cemetery to find only one plot, while Luke trades punches - and butts heads - with Lenny in the amateur boxing championship. The dance competition scene includes a cameo appearance by Ashley Banjo as a judge. (en)
- Ben is suspended from school. Luke, meanwhile, is let go by the police but can't escape the suspicions of those around him. (en)
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