A FUNERAL director from Kings Langley will reprise his role as the self-styled Reaper of EastEnders when he walks the streets of Albert Square on Monday.

Mr Tim Tadman, of A and C Tadman funeral directors in High Street, Kings Langley, is a familiar face on the BBC set, where he is affectionately nicknamed the Grim Reaper.

He has carried out 12 funerals for the soap and, on Monday, it will be the turn of Jamie Mitchell, played by Jack Ryder.

Mr Tadman was first approached by the BBC 12 years ago, while carrying out a funeral on a programme called Undercover Heart.

He said: "A couple of the location managers that worked on that worked on EastEnders. That was 12 years ago, about six years later, they got in touch.

"Since then, they seem to have been killing everyone off."