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3rd October 2019
08:18pm BST

The former actor had been prescribed morphine for pain relief the day before her death. She had been discharged from hospital on that same day.
Ratcliff also suffered three strokes in the years before her passing, the first of which occurred following her partner's death in 2013.
Her son, William Palmer, told the inquest that his mother had been left with chronic pain in her right arm as a result of one of the strokes.
She had been prescribed codeine, which she would take for "recreational use."
Ratcliff played cafe owner Sue Osman in the long-running BBC soap for four years between 1985 and 1989.
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