Cutting It

Allie has hopes of winning the National Hairdressing Championships, and also wants to open a second Henshall Ferraday salon, but Gavin has other ideas... he wants a baby. Allie finds the perfect place to have the second salon, a building directly across the street from their existing one. Allie talks Gavin into putting in a bid, but they're beaten by an unknown buyer paying £30,000 above the asking price. Allie and Gavin can't afford to go any higher and they let the mystery purchaser get the property. A few days later Mia Bevan visits Henshall Ferraday for a hair cut, and she reveals she's the new owner of the property across the street, and she's opening a salon! Finn Bevan, Mia's husband, shows up shortly after and lets on that he seems to know Allie from the past, but Allie says she doesn't remember him. Later on Allie is visited by Finn, and we find out that the two used to go out years ago. But not only did they go out... Allie was pregnant with his baby, and she reveals to him t

Blade Runner, Mia's salon, seems to be getting all of Henshall Ferraday's clients and Eugene discovers it's no accident. The salon's database has been accessed and that's how Blade Runner is getting their clients. Eugene tells Allie that it's an inside job, because only people who work for the salon can access it, but it could be anyone! Allie thinks it's Gavin who's given Blade Runner the info, as a way to get her to have a baby. There's also a celebrity photo shoot up for grabs and Allie and Mia are fighting each other for it. Mia tries anything she can to try and get the contract, but she can't beat Allie's ideas that she's impressing the contractors with. Finn manages to get secretly inolved with the celebrity photo shoot and secures the contract for Allie, also telling her that she just has to say and he'll divorce Mia. Allie is mad and doesn't accept his offer, storming off. Both are unaware that Mia has heard the whole conversation.

Allie agrees that she and Gavin should start trying for a baby. Mia and Allie are both hired to do hair and make up at a wedding, and Allie can no longer resist Finn's temptations.

It's one month after Allie chose Finn over Gavin, and she returns with Finn from their holiday in Naples. They pull up outside the Henshall-Ferraday salon, which is having its sign changed to ""Gavin Ferraday"". Allie obviously isn't welcome. Finn surprises Allie, taking her to a new state of the art health and beauty spa for her to run, Celestium. She's flattered and accepts Finn's offer to run it. Brawdie shows up for a cut and blow dry, to prepare herself for Tom's 60th birthday disco party, but Allie talks her into having the full Celestium treatment. Brawdie looks fantastic as a result of the pampering, and becomes the life of the party at the disco. Tom speaks to Allie, reminding her where her true talent lies, that she can make a difference to real people's lives, and that she doesn't really suit being a ""hands-off"" executive. A big argument kicks off at the party, with Ruby announcing the different partners Finn has had, information provided to her by the scheming Mia of course.

With Allie out of the picture, Darcey takes the opportunity of replacing her in Gavin's business and bed. Finn, Allie and Gavin are all nominated for ""Hey! Manchester"" awards. Mia has been working as an escort, so Gavin offers her a job.

Allie and Finn take Ruby for a day out a Blackpool. Darcey continues to plot her and Gavin's future, and there's an incident involving the Manchester Ship Canal which gets Calypso a TV spot.

Eight months after their livelihoods went up in smoke, the Henshalls are back in action. But with Allie and Ruby now both heavily pregnant to the same man, things are going to get complicated.

While Ruby finds motherhood a breeze, Allie is struggling with both newborn Ralfie and a tyrannical Nanny. Without her at the helm, the salon is teetering on the verge of chaos, forcing Finn to seek help from an unlikely source.

Darcey is freaked out by the attentions of the salon's weirdo neighbour, Smee, and is determined to see him evicted. Meanwhile Finnbecomes impatient to Gavin's continued presence at the salon

The Salon's thriving and a new hairdressing academy is on the way. When Allie discoveres she might be pregnant, she thinks she can have it all. Fate, however, has other plans, as she finds out she is actually suffering from cancer.

Only weeks into the new term, the academy's students are already causing trouble. Meanwhile Eungene begins to suspect that Dracey and Troy are having an affair, before realising he's jumped to all the wrong conclusions.

The strain of Allie's cancer begins to take its toll on her relationship with Gavin. Meanwhile, an error by Liam throws the academy into crisis, revealing an interesting secret from his past.