I'm so glad that a combintion of memories from GN posters clears up these amazingly complex tales. I have thought that Maria should be an awful lot better off that she seems to be, although Gary appears to be able to provide a decent lifestyle selling odds and ends and old sofas (remarkable) Before Garry she lived in a rented, shared flat, but was she not married to Liam, who part owned the factory with Carla? When he was killed in a car accident, she would surely have benefitted from his estate, and she was then involved with the Scottish businessman, who I think had also been involved with Carla. He died too (what a singularly unlucky woman she has been) and he left her his esatae. Where has all the money gone?