British actress Wendy Richard, best known for her role in the television soap EastEnders, has died at the age of 65.
Her breakthrough television role was in the 1970s department store sitcom Are You Being Served in which she played glamorous sales assistant Miss Brahms.
She joined EastEnders when the BBC programme began in 1985 and remained until 2006, when her character died. Richard said her departure was over objections to the storyline.
Richard revealed in a newspaper interview in October that she had terminal cancer and soon afterwards married her long-term partner John Burns. She had married three times previously.
In 2000, Richard was awarded the MBE for services to television and in 2007 was given a British Soap Award for Lifetime Achievement for her role in EastEnders.
