Image caption, 2000: Dot Cotton goes to prison after Ethel's death but not for helping her friend end her life. Dot is convinced she deserves punishment and shoplifts to ensure she is prosecuted.

Dot Cotton, a chain-smoking, devoutly religious hypochondriac ... The devout Christian was faced with an agonising decision when best friend Ethel Skinner, who had terminal cancer, begged her to help ...

She departed for Ireland in 2020, where grandson Charlie Cotton (Declan Bennett ... the two women blew out the candles together, and Dot assisted Ethel in taking morphine tablets to end her ...

It’s a scene that even Dot Cotton and her reliable tea leaves couldn ... the one shared by June Brown and Gretchen Franklin (Dot and Ethel), and another starring Pam St Clement and Barbara ...

EastEnders star June Brown has announced that she has quit the soap after 35 years playing Dot Cotton. The actress, 93, confirmed she no longer wished to play the gossiping laundress, after first ...

Dot Cotton was one of the BBC soap's longest-running ... One of her most moving and controversial moments came when her close friend Ethel, who was terminally ill, asked Dot to help her take ...

Dot Cotton, a chain-smoking ... Dot was faced with an agonising decision when best friend Ethel Skinner, who had terminal cancer, begged her to help her die. In heart-rending scenes, the devout ...

Her own loyalty was put to the test when Ethel Skinner (Gretchen Franklin ... However, by the time she was cast as Dot Cotton in EastEnders in 1985, Brown and her husband were working less ...

EastEnders fans are shocked as they notice Dot Cotton's secret Christmas trend which ... Mrs Branning buried next to her dearest friend Ethel Skinner (Gretchen Franklin), who died in 2000 ...

Image caption, June Brown in the part that made her famous. Dot Cotton worked with Pauline Fowler and Ethel Skinner in the Albert Square launderette Her younger brother, John, died of pneumonia in ...

Dot Cotton was the devoutly religious, laundrette-running hypochondriac whom EastEnders viewers adored. It was a heartbreaking moment in 2000, as Dot was asked by her best friend Ethel Skinner ...