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  1. Stacey’s Story: Mother And Baby Units

    Stacey’s Story: Mother And Baby Units

    Tonight’s episode (Monday 22nd Feb) finally saw Martin secure a place for Stacey at a Mother and Baby Unit (MBU). Justine and Sasha work at an MBU in Hackney and worked closely with the EastEnders team to ensure the storyline was authentic as possible.

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  2. Stacey's Story: Working with Mind

    Stacey's Story: Working with Mind

    In light of tonight's episode (Friday 22nd January) Jenni Regan, Senior Media Advisor at Mind tells us of the organisation's involvement in the storyline.

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  3. Shabnam's story - by Rakhee Thakrar

    Shabnam's story - by Rakhee Thakrar

    In an exclusive blog, Rahkee reveals what it was like to work on EastEnders' most heart-wrenching storyline in recent months - the still birth of Shabnam's baby.

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  4. Dyer Dubs

    Dyer Dubs

    When Danny Dyer started to give classic film clips a comedy spin on social media by overdubbing his voice onto them, we just knew we had to let him loose on the 'Enders archive!

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  5. On location: Under arrest!

    On location: Under arrest!

    Gillian Taylforth and Sophie Stanton braved the wet weather to film scenes of Kathy getting cuffed for an upcoming episode.

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  6. Jade’s story: Dealing with cystic fibrosis

    Jade’s story: Dealing with cystic fibrosis

    With the confirmation in tonight's episode (18th June 2015) that Dean and Shabnam's daughter Jade has cystic fibrosis, Oli Lewington, Engagement Director at the Cystic Fibrosis Trust, explains how the trust worked with EastEnders on the storyline.

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  7. Stan’s story: Dealing with prostate cancer

    With Aunt Babe’s dropping a bombshell earlier in the week by revealing that Stan Carter had been diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer, we caught up with Karen Sumpter , Clinical Lead at Prostate Cancer UK.

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  8. Living with Bipolar (Updated 7/8/2014)

    With the return of Jean and Stacey to The Square this week, we caught up with Siobhan O’Neill from Time to Change’s Media Advisory Service.

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  9. Rudolph Walker interview

    We caught up with actor Rudolph Walker recently to discuss Patrick's stroke storyline.

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  10. Coping With Stroke

    To find out more about medical issues surrounding Patrick’s stroke in tonight’s episode, we caught up with Stroke Association Information Advice & Support Coordinators Andrew Jones and Harriet Ingham, who were part of the team who advised on the storyline.

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  11. Shona's advice to bullying victims

    Shona's advice to bullying victims - webwise.

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  12. Interview: Laurie Brett

    Interview with actress Laurie Brett

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  13. Inside Soap Awards 2013

    All the pictures and backstage gossip from the Inside Soap Awards 2013.

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  14. Researching organ donation

    We examine the research behind the kidney donation storyline.

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  15. Photo Spoiler: Secret date

    Jake and Lauren enjoy a secret date...

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  16. Photo Spoilers: Tough Choices

    A round-up of the Walford action coming your way next week from Monday 7th October.

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  17. Lauren's Diary: "Why can't we just talk about things?"

    What do you do when you discover that your mum has cancer? Confide in your friends? Your family? What if you have to keep it a secret? You're the only form of emotional support for your mum, but you don't have any emotional support yourself. Could you take that pressure? Could you keep that se...

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