Head over to my excellent new Mirror.co.uk blog for the exclusive soap preview to the week ahead.

Head over to my excellent new Mirror.co.uk blog for the exclusive soap preview to the week ahead.

For a soap that isn’t averse to some unlikely even if entertaining sensationalism when it comes to the Brannings, how refreshing that EastEnders can still address this story of old age, sickness and love with such simple emotion and, at times, humour.

For a soap that isn’t averse to some unlikely even if entertaining sensationalism when it comes to the Brannings, how refreshing that EastEnders can still address this story of old age, sickness and love with such simple emotion and, at times, humour.

Either Anna De Souza is totally irresistible to men, or there’s a complete shortage of eligible and desirable young women in the Dales.

Nobody knows for sure exactly when Ken Barlow wrote his novel during his student days. But the manuscript is on genuine calfskin parchment and he has to use a quill to make any alterations.

Either Anna De Souza is totally irresistible to men, or there’s a complete shortage of eligible and desirable young women in the Dales.

Nobody knows for sure exactly when Ken Barlow wrote his novel during his student days. But the manuscript is on genuine calfskin parchment and he has to use a quill to make any alterations.

He’s verging on the incontinent, has far too much hair, his nose is wet and shiny, and he snores. But his bark is far worse than his bite, and the kids adore him.

He’s verging on the incontinent, has far too much hair, his nose is wet and shiny, and he snores. But his bark is far worse than his bite, and the kids adore him.