June Brown says she's played EastEnders' Dot Cotton for last time

Veteran actor says she’s left the soap, but BBC say the door is open for the mainstay’s return

June Brown has announced that she has left EastEnders after 35 years of playing chain-smoking Albert Square favourite Dot Cotton.

The 93-year-old actor, whose stint on the soap began in 1985, said she had left the long-running soap “for good”.