In April, Lacey Turner - who plays Stacey Branning, announced she would also be leaving the soap.
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She said that over the years she had been able to introduce a number of topics including the campaign for all pensioners' to get their flu jabs, with Jim Branning having his.
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The second part of an EastEnders double bill, screened at 2000 GMT, saw the aftermath of the revelation that Stacey Branning had an affair with her father-in-law Max in the months before her wedding to husband Bradley.