In the recent EastEnders cot-death controversy, both sides behaved pretty much as you’d expect. The BBC-bashers denounced the ‘offensive’ suggestion that grieving mothers routinely steal other people’s babies.
In the recent EastEnders cot-death controversy, both sides behaved pretty much as you’d expect.

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