Kirk finally plucks up the courage to go over to Fiz. She turns round excitedly as he calls her name and beams, 'Yes Kirk, what is it?' but once again he loses his bottle and finds himself unable to come out with the four words he so desperately wants to say to her.

Panic stricken, he turns away and fishes in his pocket like Weatherfield's answer to Frodo Baggins, takes out the ring, drops it into her drink and thrusts the glass towards her with a, 'Here, I got this for you!'

Of course, Fiz being Fiz, presented with a free drink what does she do? She throws it down her gullet with all the care and attention of a gannet confronted with a herring.....

....with predictable results! She starts coughing and spluttering. Realising she is choking, Hero Harry leaps into action to perform an admittedly half hearted Heimlich maneuver. With a final splutter, a small object flies from her mouth to the floor.

There is a gasp from the assembled onlookers as they realise it's a diamond ring.

Kirk wails that he's sorry and didn't know how to propose to her so just put it in her drink.

'You weren't meant to drink it!' Fiz is over the moon and doesn't seem in the slightest bit concerned that he has just almost inadvertently caused her death, and beams,

'Oh Kirk! Of course I will marry you!'

Celebrations in The Rovers for the newly betrothed Kirk and Fiz as Janice loudly announces,

'Well done. The best man won!'

Meanwhile, bemoaning his lack of success in the love department Tyrone catches sight of something on the television that makes him sit up with a start.

For there, on the local news, is amazingly clear CCTV footage of a robbery at a local jewellers earlier that day and the perpetrator, and his leather jacket, look rather familiar.

Jack and Vera gape in amazement as Tyrone hoots with laughter and writes the crime hotline telephone number down.

He cries triumphantly, 'He stole her ring! Let's see if she still wants to marry him when she finds out about this!'