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'EastEnders legend June Brown has revealed that she is losing her sight.

The actress - who has played Dot Branning on the BBC soap since 1985 - said she's afraid of "being poor" if she gives up work.




She told BBC Radio 4: "I see things in my eyes now. My eyes are not very good. In the left occasionally I do get this small circle with what looks like cross-wires.

"I do pray about my sight - maybe it will return."

On the financial implications of leaving EastEnders, she said that the economic crisis has hit her pensions hard.

"You might laugh at that and think 'she'll never be poor when she's old' but I've not squirrelled away lots of money," the 88-year-old explained. "I've had two pensions each that have gone down by 50%."

Earlier this year, Brown was at the centre of EastEnders' 30th anniversary celebrations as Dot was arrested for the murder of her villainous son Nick Cotton.'

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