EASTENDERS 75 - but more importantly 40yr anniversary. ABSOLUTELY NO SPOILERS !!!

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New thread for the week as old one is almost full

HELLO BRUV

A fab duff duff

Tho why do Grant and Jay think all is fine with Phil. It's obvious he isn't well bless him

Amazing acting By Steve M !!

Many say someone will die this week - I'm saying either Ruby or Reiss

Ruby as Martin needs to be with Stacey and Ruby means 40 !!!

Reiss as fed up with him. It's either jail or death 😂

Stacey and Martin need to get back together. They obviously love each other

Do we really care who hit Cindy over the head - I'm saying Peter

Bianca finally managed to escape. I wish we had a flashback how she managed to get the bag - use the tools in it - escape and get back to the square - all in time to hit reiss with a teapot

If people locked their back doors life would be better for all in the square 😂

Billy and Honey married - do we really care 😂

Linda is sober. Yah !!!

Tommy seems to be ok now living with Zack

Tomorrow is the hour special and a thur the live episode we get every 5yrs or so

How many cock ups will with we have - Must be hard to do live episodes

Been lovely watching the old duff on bbc 4 this week and all the old cast popping in for cameos

Yep...was bored to start with ....then I had a little " chopping onions " moment towards the end !! 😔 😂....

Gosh ..!!
That Comic Relief thing was powerful 😔..

Just no words .

What happened?

I recorded all of cr. but will ff thro bits. When was ee on during it

you can watch it here instead of searching through the whole recording

m.youtube.com/watch?v=BBQGe4geIXw&pp=0gcJCfcAhR29_xXO

Thanks @lazymum99. Will go and watch

That was good. Thought provoking. Thanks x

A bit concerning tonight with Avani and her reckless behaviour 😳

Very Child Q the Avani storyline.

And Jack should have called her parents not just walk off. Regardless of how angry he was, most decent people would think if the police can't get hold of them (I don't answer private numbers either too many spam calls these days) and they personally know the parents they would call them.

I can't imagine Jack has Ravi and Priya on speed dial 😂 although Denise might!

I find it very difficult to believe the police can strip search children on the basis that drugs were found near them.

And I'm not sure why we need to watch it :/

It's not a comfortable watch, is it? I feel a bit voyeuristic right now. All a bit much, considering the coppers only happened to spot something on the floor near her feet in a public place.

Completely inappropriate to do a strip search before doing a pat down.

It's really uncomfortable viewing tonight.

https://www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/news-and-blogs/child-strip-searched-every-14-hours-by-police-in-england-and-wales/

Very uncomfortable. Is this a very clumsy part of a campaign to put teenagers off drugs?

A child was strip searched more than once a day by police in England and Wales between January 2018 and June 2023,

Presence of an appropriate adult: Between July 2022 and June 2023, an appropriate adult (a parent, carer or social worker) could not be confirmed to be present in almost half (45%) of searches

Reason for the search: During the same period (July 2022 to June 2023), the majority of searches – 88% – were conducted on suspicion of drugs,

Result of search: Over the same period, just under half of all searches resulted in ‘no further action’ (47%) – calling into question their necessity

Racial disparity: Continued racial disparity despite improvements overall, with black children four times more likely to strip searched

Compliance: At least* *4% of searches conducted between 2018 and June 2023 were not compliant with statutory Codes of Practice

The young actress who plays Avani did that brilliantly. And her mum is just awful.

Welcome to being non-white in the UK.

Guess it happens. Rare. But as kinks show it can

edited for spelling

Didn't she, it was heartbreaking.
Bloody Priya ignoring her phone who does that when they have children and then shouting it all across the square.

True

isn’t Ravi a bit dodgy anyway

Priya is just awful. Avani was so clear - she wants and needs boundaries like other kids have. Not thong knickers which she doesn't even like. Great scene with Priya marching over to Jack's for a Jerry Springer style trailer park hoedown.

Thought that was a good episode tonight..great acting

But yes.. uncomfortable viewing

They could have just looked at the CCTV footage from the tube station first