Windsor dreams of West End return

Barbara Windsor apparently wants to make a return to the West End stage when she leaves EastEnders next year.

The 72-year-old announced her forthcoming departure from the BBC One soap earlier this week, adding that she will be "so sad" to leave the character of Walford's landlady Peggy Mitchell after 15 years.

Windsor told the Sunday Mirror that she misses the theatre and hopes to tread the boards once more, having already stepped into the limelight for parts in Entertaining Mr Sloane and Guys And Dolls.

"I'd like to feel I could do theatre one more time," she said. "I reckon I've got one more pantomime in me!"

Details of Windsor's exit storyline from Albert Square have yet to emerge, with her final scenes due to be shown next year.