Cockles will surely be warmed across the nation by another charming festive edition of TV’s cosiest drama ... in the episode is Mrs Pumphrey, now played by Patricia Hodge but in the opening ...

A fan since it began, Weekend's soap critic celebrates EastEnders' enduring mix of lies, love, death and disaster.

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