Appearance: Sandeep is 5’7” with long dark black hair, brown eyes and dark skin. She dresses in black and hides her face and body most of he time. She hides her bruises and scars under her clothes that were given to her by her aunt.
Parjinda is 5’5” with shoulder length black hair, and dark brown/grey eyes. She wears patterned dressed and always wears a shawl draped over her shoulders.
Name: Mr George Davis, 72 years old and Ms Betty Davis, 69 years old.
Occupation: Both Betty and George are retired.
Personality: Betty and George live at house number 16 on Hyden Street and are very religious. George enjoys gardening and helping out in the community arranging flower displays for the local schools and church. Betty cooks meals, and sandwiches for the local pub.
Betty often organises bingo and fundraising for other couples at the local church. They both attend church on Sunday and help the homeless.
Appearance: George is 5’10” with short grey/white hair. He has light blue eyes and pale skin. He usually dresses in cotton trousers and a shirt with a tie, or if he is in the house just a t-shirt and trousers.
Betty is 5’6” with long blonde/grey hair and light hazel eyes. She has tanned skin and doesn’t believe in women wearing trousers. She mainly wears skirts and blouses or a dress.
Name: Rosie Evans 24 years old.
Occupation: A bar Maid at the local pub on Hyden Street
Personality: She lives at 9a a maisonette on the ground floor on Hyden Street. Alex Jackson lives above her in 9b. She is a very mature and well natured girl, and is very neat. She has dreams to go far in her life and is also studying for sociology and psychology when she is not working at the pub. Her family live in house number 16 Hyden Street. She gets on well with her family and has a secret boyfriend in the street, which only her closest friend Laura Jeane knows about. She is a very private person and not many people in the street know much about her.
Appearance: She has light brown hair and green eyes. She is 5’4” and is of medium build. She usually wears Lycra type trousers and tight tops with a jacket or cardigan to match her trousers. She is a very colour co-ordinate girl.
Name: Mr Kevin Johnson 30 years old, Mrs Marie Johnson 28 years old and Anabel Louise Johnson 4 years old.
Occupation: Kevin is the Head Supervisor at the factory and Marie has just started work in the hairdresser’s following their daughter starting school.
Personality: All three of the Johnson’s live at number 5. Kevin is a shy man and loves is wife a lot, he is obsessed with her and probably could not cope without her. Marie is very friendly and socialises with other people in the street, she is a bit of a gossiper now she has started at the hairdressers as she gets told a lot of news which she passes on to her friends. Their daughter Anabel has been in hospital for quite a while shortly after her second birthday, she suffers from epilepsy and had to have a tracki performed when she stopped breathing. Before she started school in September for the first time she had an operation performed which allowed Anabel to speak.
Appearance: Kevin almost always wears suits in the week when he is at work, unless he has a day off in which case he lounges around the house or down the local pub in jeans and a t-shirt. He is 5’9” and has dark blonde hair and blue eyes.
Marie wears long skirts or jeans most of the time; she is very much into teenage fashion and wears very trendy clothes. She is 5’7” and has straight blonde hair and brown eyes.
Anabel has wavy blonde hair and blue/green eyes she is a tall girl for her age and is a quick learner.
Name: Alex Jackson 18 years old.
Occupation: Alex is currently in his second year at college studying A-levels in double maths, physics, I.CT and Chemistry.
Personality: Alex lives above Rosie Evans in 9b. He is a very bright boy and intends to do well in his A-Levels. Alex is going out with Ellie Williams at number 3 and is secretly going out with Koral Time who lives with her other boyfriend Leon Deal at number 21. Even though Alex is a very smart boy he is a troublemaker and is very cunning, he likes practical jokes and winds people up easily. Alex is also very vain and thinks he is really gorgeous and every other girl on the street fancies him.
Appearance: Alex is 5’6” with short black hair and green eyes. He is very much into expensive clothes and likes dirty looking jeans. He uses a lot of gel and spends a long time in the mirror each morning.
Name: Laura Jeane, 26 years old
Occupation: She works as a nurse in the local doctor’s surgery, and is also the nurse at all the local schools in the area.
Personality: She lives at number 6 Hyden Street. Her best friend is Rosie Evans and they tell each other everything. They know who killed Sandeep’s mum and it is someone in the street! Laura is friendly with other people in the street and helps out with the homeless with Mr and Mrs Davis. She is a well-loved character by other people on the street. Laura is a very down to earth girl and is the sort of person anyone can confide in she can keep secrets very well.
Appearance: She has curly brown hair with red and blonde highlights, and is 5’2”. She has baby blue eyes and wears glasses, sometimes contact lenses. She is quite slim and wears fashionable clothes.
Name: Mr Fred Gardner 65 years old, and Mrs Mavis Gardner 62 years old.
Occupation: Both retired
Personality: They both live at number 4 Hyden Street. Mavis is good friends with Betty Davis and Maud Jones. Fred goes into the local town centre with Bill State and George Davis to go and put money on the horses. They have been married since they were 17 and have one daughter who lives in Spain. Mavis is a very nosey character and likes to get into other peoples business. Fred on the other hand is not interested in what other people have to say to him about gossip, he cannot stand it when Mavis interferes with other people and they often argue about it.
Appearance: George is bald and has musky grey eyes. He is only 5’8” and wears shirts and trousers everywhere.
Mavis is 5’2” and has red/brown hair and green eyes. She will wear anything as long as it makes her look beautiful.
Name: Dean Boland 45 years old
Occupation: Mechanic at the local garage. He owns the business.
Personality: He lives at number 1 by himself. He enjoys doing his job and is very independent. He doesn’t like other people to help him out and is sometimes very stubborn. He was adopted at birth and came to the street to be near his real mum who is someone on the street, his mum doesn’t know who he is and neither does anybody else on the street. He helps her out a lot. His real mum is Betty Davis.
Appearance: He has light brown spiky hair and brown eyes. He is 5’6” and looks smart when he’s not covered in oil and dirt from the garage.
Name: Mr John Klimzack 45 years old, Mrs Maureen Klimzack 47 years old, Emma Klimzack 16 years old, Jonathon Klimzack 12 years old and Susan Klimzack 5 years old.
Occupation: John is a fire fighter at the fire station in town. Maureen owns the hairdressers. Emma has recently finished year 11 and is looking out for jobs. Jonathon goes to Hyden Grammar Secondary School and Susan has just started at Hyden Primary School in September.
Personality: The family live at number 11 Hyden Street. Maureen and John are very strict parents and wanted Emma to go to college but she declined. Jonathon is a very well brought up boy and has brilliant manners, but Emma is getting into the teenage way of life and backchats with her mum and dad.
Susan is very shy and doesn’t like her new school, as she hasn’t made any friends. Maureen is very picky, and looks down at other people in the street. They are very posh and care deeply about there appearance and what other people think of them. Maureen was the person who told Dean about his real mum. Betty didn’t even know what her son was called, she confided in Maureen as they are like mother and daughter. John goes along with whatever Maureen says and doesn’t ever cross her path.
Appearance: Maureen has thin short brown curly hair, brown eyes with glasses. She is very tall and slim – 5’8”. John is also very tall he is 6’3” and has brown/grey hair round the side of his head. He has green eyes and a crooked nose. Emma has fluorescent pink hair and wears black because she is a Goth. She is 5’4” and has brown eyes. Jonathon has longish blonde messy hair and brown eyes. He is 4’10” and is a skater type boy who wears baggy trousers and tops. Susan has got dark blonde hair and green eyes. She wears glasses and is 4’5”
Name: Mr Peter Evans 37 years old, Mrs Julie Evans 36 years old and Daniel Evans 12 years old.
Occupation: Peter is the postman for the local community. Julie is a teacher at the college. Daniel goes to school at Hyden Grammar School.
Personality: The family live at number 16 on the street. Peter’s sister Rosie lives at 9a. Peter is very loving and kind he looks out for everyone in the street and is very friendly. Julie is very stressed out with teaching but is friendly with the other mothers on the street. Daniel is good friends with Jonathon ad has a crush on Jonathon’s sister Emma he too is a skater.
Appearance: Peter has brown hair and brown eyes. He is 5’10” and wears casual but smart clothes. Julie has brown hair and green eyes. She is slim and is 5’8”. Daniel has blonde hair and green eyes he is 5’1”.
Name: Freeda Williams 64 years old.
Occupation: Retired
Personality: She is very forgetful and has her family living in number 3. She lives at number 25. She is caring but gets herself into trouble a lot.
Appearance: She is 4’11” and has blue/whit short curly hair. She is quite plump and wears trousers and skirts sometimes dresses.
Name: Tabish Khan 39 years old and Vandana Khan 28 years old.
Occupation: Tabish owns the local shop and Vandana works full time as the shop assistant.
Personality: They both live at number 1. They are cousins and are very close. They are friendly with other people in the street. Tabish and Vandana are well known and people often come to them for advice, or to tell them secrets.
Appearance: Tabish has spiky black hair and brown eyes. He has quite fair skin and is 5’9”. Vandana has long black hair and hazel eyes she is slim and 5’6”.
Other Characters to be introduced in later episodes.
The Williams’ at number 7. Mr Mark Williams 34. Mrs Margaret Williams 29, Ellie Williams 15 and Michael Williams 17 years old.
Carrie Lawyer number 8. 27 years old.
The Slates’ at number 10. Dorothy Slate 59 years old, bill Slate 62 years old and Deborah Slate, 27 years old.
The Pontillos’ at number 12. Rebecca Pontillo 36 years old and Alex Pontillo 3 years old.
Samantha Phillips number 13. 35 years old.
The Halls’ at number 14. Robert Hall 52 years old. Mary Hall 48 years old.
The First Scene
The camera shows the outside of the local pub, and protrudes into the swinging doors to reveal Rosie Evans and Laura Jeane sitting at a table talking. The camera zooms in to their conversation.
Rosie: Are you going to help out Betty this weekend with her fundraiser at the church?
Laura: Yeah we’re doing a bring and buy sale down there, you coming?
Rosie (takes a sip of her coke) nah I’m going to see him. (She smiles deviously)
Laura: So you’re back together again. I thought you were never going to see him ever again because he’s a lying conniving sod?
Rosie: Yeah well he explained to me why he stood me up and he begged me not to dump him. He even started crying you know he’s so sweet. (She twiddles with her thumbs)
Laura: Well that’s not what you were saying the other day about him. (She pauses) How much longer do you have on you break then?
Rosie: Oh about 20 minutes left I didn’t have one this morning. So you up for it on Friday? Me and a couple of others are going into town to get bladdered. You should come it’ll be a laugh.
Laura: Nah I don’t think I really fancy it maybe next time yeah?
Rosie: You never come out any more. Please Laura it’ll be so much fun.
Laura: I’ll think about it then. I ain’t promising anything though.
Rosie: Great
Laura: Anyway (She drinks the rest of her coke, stands up and reaches for her bag) I best be off now. I’ve got to go and talk to Betty about Sunday.
Rosie: Ok hun I’ll phone you later and we can talk about Friday.
Laura: I’ll speak to you then. (She gets up and walks towards the door) Bye Rosie.
Rosie: (Smiles and waves to Laura as she goes out the door.)
End of Scene One
On the next episode ...........