Since EastEnders began in 1985 ... Apologies in advance for not having room for Tracey the barmaid or Roly the poodle. Stacey’s brooding older brother had a genuinely disturbing air of ...

The primetime soap may not have its peak 30-million audience, but its humour, warmth and the certainty that someone on the square is having a worse day than you have helped it to reach an ...

EastEnders star to exit after three years as ... as the pair reminisce about old times – and their legendary pooch Roly the poodle. Remembering the canine companion, Anita reveals: ‘That ...

The soap had pets too: Roly the poodle, witness to all manner of grubby goings-on in the Queen Victoria pub, and Ethel’s pug Willy, EastEnders’ answer to Mrs Slocombe’s Pussy. Later came ...