Waterloo Road - Season 8 - Eps 5: Future Proof
Havelock High's Head Girl, Liberty is a rising athletic star and carer to her mum Sandra, who has rheumatoid arthritis. Concerned that Gerard's failing management of the school will ruin her university plans, Liberty secretly blows the lid on her head teacher with a damning story in the local paper. Liberty pleads with Audrey for a place at Waterloo Road before Gerard discovers she was behind the newspaper exposé. While Michael believes it would be wrong to poach Havelock's star pupil, Lorraine strongly disagrees. Under pressure, Gerard's bad press threatens to overshadow Havelock's performance in the first inter-school competition against Waterloo Road. Soon afterwards, when Liberty unwittingly reveals she was responsible for the newspaper article, Gerard snaps. Elsewhere, Janeece is excited after being asked to be Lorraine's PA for a day but fails to spot that Cheryl has chicken-pox. When the child-minder sends Cheryl home sick, Janeece leans on Chalky for help but fails to reveal Cheryl's illness -with far-reaching consequences. Meanwhile,Connor snubs Christine, thinking she's just seeking attention - but after a serious fall, he realises that she may have been telling the truth about being ill. Connor questions whether he can cope with two women in his life and pushes Imogen away.
About Waterloo Road

Title: Waterloo Road
First Air Date: 2006-03-09
Last Air Date: 2025-03-25
Status: Returning Series
Rating: 7.2/10 (from 26 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 16
Total Episodes: 238
Network: BBC One
Genres: Drama
Production Companies: Shed Productions, Wall to Wall, Rope Ladder Fiction, BBC
Synopsis
Waterloo Road is a UK television drama series the first broadcast was in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 9 March 2006. Originally set in a troubled comprehensive school in Rochdale, England, the location of the show was moved to the former Greenock Academy in Greenock, Scotland in 2012. The series focuses on the lives of the school's teachers and students, and confronts social issues such as extramarital affairs, abortion, divorce, child abuse, and suicide. Waterloo Road is produced by Shed Productions, the company responsible for Bad Girls and Footballers' Wives.
Cast

Adam Thomas
Donte Charles

Neil Fitzmaurice
Neil Guthrie

Shauna Shim
Valerie Chambers

Rachel Leskovac
Coral Walker

Katherine Pearce
Amy Spratt

Jo Coffey
Wendy Whitwell

Kym Marsh
Nicky Walters

Liam Scholes
Noel McManus

Summer Violet Bird
Tonya Walters

Thapelo Ray
Dwayne Jackson