http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=50208 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Fri, 24 May 2013 16:37:32 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=50208#post-145801 Fri, 26 Oct 2012 06:01:21 +0000 Yikes 145801@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Just love this concept and the very funny headline! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=50208#post-145782 Thu, 25 Oct 2012 23:38:57 +0000 medici2471 145782@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Surely sub judice ... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=50208#post-145743 Thu, 25 Oct 2012 17:30:23 +0000 pinxit 145743@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Yikes! Missed this before. </p> <p>Daft. Love it. Stars. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=50208#post-144917 Sun, 21 Oct 2012 18:02:19 +0000 Dick Everyman 144917@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Was her pouch buried next to Nicotine Patch? </p> <p>Great story and loved your line about the Tin of Old Holborn. ***** </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=50208#post-144872 Sun, 21 Oct 2012 13:26:38 +0000 jimmydodger 144872@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Cute! 5 stars </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=50208#post-144853 Sun, 21 Oct 2012 11:09:37 +0000 Uncle Bertie 144853@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Chain-smoking Eastenders character Dot Branning says she is ready to return to the long running soap after finally running out of fags.<br /> Back in February Branning had told executive producer Lorraine Newman that she was just nipping round the back of the Queen Vic for a ‘a quick draw’ and hadn’t been seen since.<br /> Unbeknownst to script writers, the nicotine stained actress had just taken delivery of 25000 hooky B&amp;H from Square wheeler-dealer Mickey Miller and had gone round the back of the pub to make an early start on them.<br /> But the chain-smoking actress lost track of time and before she knew it, it was October and had run out of fags.<br /> The Bafta nominated character, best remembered for her role as a tin of Old Holborn, took a four year break from the series when the tobacco ban was introduced but was persuaded to come back when the BBC agreed to build a polythene wind-break next to the outside privvy round the back of the pub.<br /> Branning first appeared on the BBC as a chain-smoking Princess from the planet Phlegm in ‘War of the Filter Tips’...an early episode of Dr Who starring William ‘Whiff’ Hartnell.<br /> The actress later appeared in an edition of Blue Peter with valerie Singleton and Christopher Trace, showing kids how to roll their first joint.<br /> A handy tobacco pouch made by the actress from an old toilet roll and some sticky backed plastic was buried in the Blue Peter garden along with a box of Swan Vesta, a roach, a Captain Beefhart album and Singleton’s future career.<br /> Eastenders is on BBC1 BBC2 BBC3 and BB4 Monday-Sunday 24hrs a day with catch up on iPlayer </p>