title: Coronation Street: The Rovers Return Story
author: Randall Tim
description: Inspired by Ken Barlow's travails on the Weatherfield Recorder, <b>Tim Randall</b> became a journalist, writing about television and interviewing some of TV's most familiar faces for newspaper supplements and magazines. A British TV buff, his recent books include the bestselling <i>Coronation Street Treasures</i>, <i>The Official EastEnders Annual</i>, and <i>Rainbow Unzipped</i>.
zlib_text: Chapter 1
  
  The view from where they were sitting was spectacular, but Millie Brady
  couldn’t help wondering why Neil had driven her up here today to Tresanter
  Point. He wasn’t normally the scenery-admiring type.
  
  Next to her, in the driver’s seat of his lovingly restored emerald-green MG,
  Neil cleared his throat.
  
  ‘Right, well, I’ve had a bit of a think about this, and we’ve been together
  for quite a while now.’ Clasping her hand suddenly in his, Neil began to
  stroke it as if it were a nervous puppy.
  
  All of a sudden Millie began to have an inkling as to what this might actually
  be about. Oh blimey, oh heavens, surely not ... surely he wasn’t gearing
  himself up to ask her to marry him .. .
  
  ‘Not that long,’ she put in hastily, ‘not really. Only three months.’
  
  ‘Still, we get on well, don’t we? And the landlord’s been dead funny about
  renewing the lease on our place. I think he wants us out of there.’ Since this
  was the flat Neil shared with four of his friends, Millie wasn’t a bit
  surpr