Iconic soap actress June Brown, who has died at the age of 95, once said she wanted to be buried at sea.
The veteran actor, who was known and loved for playing chain-smoking Dot Cotton on BBC soap Eastenders, was known for her dry sense of humour and lust for life.
Born in Suffolk in 1927 she lived through an awful lot, losing both her younger brother John to pneumonia in 1932 and her older sister Marise to meningitis two years later.
