 Kevin and Sally lend him the money - much to the annoyance of Rita who had given the Webster children £5,000.Mike Baldwin (Johnny Briggs) asks Bill to do some work at the Crimea Street flats and gets one of the flats in return and Jim McDonald (Charles Lawson) becomes his business partner.In 1997, Bill asks old flame Maureen Elliott (Sherrie Hewson) to run away with him to Germany just ten days after she has married Fred Elliott (John Savident), and they leave together.