Another report from top quality tabloid (?) The Sun appeared today (29/10/01):

SQUARE'S IRENE IN THE BILL
Exclusive By Thomas Whitaker

FORMER EastEnders star Roberta Taylor is to join TB as a boozy, chain-smoking Inspector.
Roberta, 52, quit the BBC soap last year after playing Terry's cheating lover Irene.
She is the latest in to Sun Hill to replace eight favourites who are to be killed off in dramatic story lines.

An ITV insider said: "Roberta will play a hard faced inspector who drinks like a trooper and always has a fag hanging out her mouth."

Other new signings at the show - exclusively revealed by The Sun last week - include ex-EastEnder market inspector Russell Floyd.

Roberta Taylor appeared in TB previously as a distraught mother of a diabetic in an episode from 1993, shown recently on UK Gold. Thought I'd share that with you!   - Ed

An official spokesman from thebill.com has confirmed that Roberta is joining the cast.