Ian Reddington

Things liven up on the Chatsworth Estate when the council run a Best Kept Garden Competition with the first prize of a year's free rent. Carol sees it as the perfect way to stay put at the Gallaghers, and turns their back yard into Eden.

Debbie has a new best friend who is everything she wants to be and has the boys falling at her feet. Suddenly Debbie realises what other girls her own age have been getting up to, and what she's been missing out on. When Lip and Ian spoil the fun at her house party she goes on strike, leaving the boys to struggle with a food shortage and pink washing. Meanwhile, Sue disappears after having clocked up £12,000 worth of debt.