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

As EastEnders reaches the milestone of 40 years on air, we look back at the cast members who passed away after giving life to the streets of Walford. Here's a list of the show's stars who have passed ...

During her time on EastEnders, Hannah met her first husband Ricky Groves, who played Garry Hobbs. The pair married in 2006 ...

Donald Waugh, known to Grange Hill fans as Hughsey, his tenure ending in 1980, faced a harrowing journey of alcoholism and homelessness. Triumphantly overcoming his struggles, he now focuses on aiding ...

'Nasty' Nick was a villain from the start of EastEnders, committing the soap's first murder in the opening episode. The actor had a record six separate stints in the show over the years, with his evil ...

EastEnders: 40 Years on The Square, a documentary that tracks iconic moments from the show over the years, will see a string of iconic stars return to screens. To mark the occasion, the hour-long ...

She has played the EastEnders role on and off since 1999, when she replaced Alexia Demetriou ... which led to the supposed death of her newest husband Mick. Yet despite the drama of her latest ...

Grange Hill was a popular TV show for children that ran for an impressive 30 years, from 1978 to 2008, so what happened to the original cast who made up the class of 1980?

WE take a look at the most recast characters in soaps Coronation Street, EastEnders ... from 1999 to 2001. Ben returned in 2006 to Walford from South Africa following the apparent death of his ...

Paul Danan played bad boy Sol Patrick in the Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks, and more recently had appeared on the celebrity ...

Whole life orders have been issued in just over 100 cases since their introduction into the judicial system in 1983 ...