Eastenders, Monday 11th April, 20:00

History was made twice over tonight, as Tanya's fiance Greg finally managed to string more than two words together, and Zainab was finally left speechless by Tanya's bolshy mother, all of two minutes after her arrival in the Square.

Whitney has returned from her brief stint at wherever-she-was, and is seeking solace from her normal madhouse at Dot's, resulting in Dot offering to 'make up the spare room' (with your arm in that sling? Yeah, right).

Having just got rid of her ailing husband Jim for a while, to give her a chance to recover from her fall, Dot was probably hoping for a bit of peace and quiet (as unlikely as that sounds in Walford). But Whitney is not the only visitor to her door, as Ronnie turns up, seemingly ready to spill the beans over the whole baby swap saga, and having suddenly become religious, apparently.

The whole Tommy-James baby swap story has dragged out for too long already, and Ronnie's downfall has ruined one of the most likeable characters on the Square. It's about time they wrapped this far- fetched story up and moved on to something else.

Coronation Street, Monday 11th April, 19.30

So Eddie's not a great father, Roy is having deep and profound thoughts and Jim has messed up again. No great surprises in tonight's first episode of Corrie then.

Shocking, however, to find that Roy is actually human, of woman born, as his mother made a surprise yet highly unwelcome visit to the cafe. I for one would like this character to stick around for a while-if not just to find out a little more about Roy's past and why he is so strange.

Also unsurprisingly, Xin seems to be falling for sort-of-husband and best friend's boyfriend Graham, the knight in shining armour who has stepped in to save her being deported. Can't help thinking the visa marriage is something she has set up to try to win Graham from Tina. Watch this space....

Meanwhile, Jim's botched attempt as raiding a building society to buy the Rovers for 'Elizabeth' has failed (so it has, so it has). And no surprises really. Many bank raids that take months of planning are unsuccessful, so what he was hoping to achieve in the space of an afternoon, one has to wonder, particularly with nothing but a flat cap as a disguise. Looks like it's back to the 'big hoos' for our wee Jim lad.

To pay or not to pay?

Can't believe it's been a month since I last posted, I'm truly awful at this!

But it's been a busy month. The usual end of term deadlines, plus, more excitingly, work experience on a local magazine. 

Before going to work experience I wasn't sure what to expect, as you hear about so many placements that result in relentless tea-making and mind numbing filing, with very little else to show, but I had high expectations for this placement-I had arranged it directly with the editor of the magazine, and she therefore knew about my journalistic ambitions and eagerness to gain relevant experience-surely I would not just be relegated to position as office tea maker? 

This got me thinking about the (seemingly ever-raging) debate about work experience and internships-should they be paid positions or not?

Whilst I would never turn down an offer of being paid for a placement, I have always thought that companies who take people on for work experience should be under no obligations to pay them for their efforts. After all, they are going to the effort of, at the very least, finding you a placement and finding you tasks to do to keep you occupied, no doubt causing interruptions to their usual working day. Having said this, I also feel that if you are undertaking the tasks that no one else wants to do (filing, shredding etc.), they should at least give you something in return-tasks related to the experience you are hoping to gain, for instance.

This was the deal I made with the editor of the magazine I was working on. I arrived on the first day and was put to work on a backlog of competition entries from previous issues of the magazine, a task which, from the backlog of data I had to sort through, it seems that either no-one else had the time or the will to do. A boring and unrelated task you may think. But it was made clear from the offset that if I was to spend my first day doing the company a favour by doing this, I would be given a more relevant and interesting task the next day.

And they were true to their word. The following day I was put to work on an article which will hopefully be published in the upcoming issue. My first 'proper' article that I wrote myself from start to finish, contacted people for quotes, pictures etc., and which has led to me being invited to a press conference on Wednesday, a brilliant opportunity to gain some industry relevant experience, and something that looks good on my CV (I realise this sounds shallow, but this is what work experience is about, after all.)

Therefore, I do not necessarily agree that work experience should be paid, as the company is going out of their way to accommodate you, and I believe that if you are trying to break into a notoriously tricky industry such as the media, you must be prepared to work for little (or nothing) on your way up. If, however, a company you are doing work experience with has you carrying out the mundane tasks that no one else wants to do, with few tasks that are relevant to your career aspirations, it is only right that you speak up-you should be rewarded, if not financially, then at least with some sort of experience to show for your efforts.