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EastEnders (BBC1, 20:00-20:30) They’ve kept it pretty under wraps, but we’ve heard that Patsy Palmer’s back in Albert Square. Shhhh, don’t tell anyone. Bianca makes her triumphant return tonight, and we’re sure you’re all a-flutter at the potential for drama. Of course, is there ever anything else in the Square?

It is rare to find a film format that is so universally loved, or a comedy genre which so perfectly encapsulates all that is bad and good about the British psyche (discuss).

Jayne Mansfield, living in London while making the film Too Hot To Handle, was invited to the All Saints church in Haggerston in September 1959 to help judge the East London Budgerigar and Foreign Birds Society show. Michael Allen, son of the society secretary, knew of the actress' ornithological interest, and she was asked to be guest of honour. To the amazement of locals, Mansfield and her husband showed up, and hundreds of people clamoured for a glimpse of genuine Hollywood glamour in the East End. In modern equivalent, it's probably something like Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt rocking up unannounced at the Hackney Wick Pigeon Fancier's Collective on a wet and windy Tuesday.

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This Week In London’s History Monday – 6th August 1937: Barbara Windsor is born in Shoreditch in central London. She would achieve fame as an actress, notably as a ‘saucy strumpet’ in the Carry On films of the 60s and 70s and later as a major character in Eastenders. Tuesday – 7th August 2001: The Department of Health pays £27 million for a private Harley Street heart hospital, re-nationalising it and bringing it into...

We bet the elephant had more screen presence than Jude Law.

Watch Giddy Stratospheres: here Screw the Arctic Monkeys - those of us unblinded by intense hype have been well aware that the best band to come out of Sheffield after 1978 is the dazzlingly glamourous Long Blondes. Taking much inspiration from Pulp themselves, the LBs were the country's finest unsigned band until they finally joined forces with Rough Trade last year. Kate Jackson, Dorian Cox, Reenie Hollis, Emma Chaplin and Screech Louder formed the...

You go into hospital expecting to see certain things. Jim Dale flying down the corridor on a runaway trolley holding onto Barbara Windsor's underwear while Sid James guffaws into his bedpan for example. What you don't expect to see is sheep. Even if you tick 'lamb' on the MRSA encrusted menu you'd be surprised if the sludge served to you the next day looked at all like what you asked for. So it must have been quite a shock for all involved when a ram took a wander around St George's hospital in Tooting: