Call The Midwife fans react to shock series 7 death
Twitter was flooded with tweets and tears
Call The Midwife fans flooded Twitter with tears and distraught tweets as a major character died in the seventh episode of series seven.
SPOILER ALERT: Do not continue reading if you've not yet seen Call The Midwife series seven episode seven
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The episode saw Charlotte Ritchie's Barbara, who had been taken to hospital with suspected septicaemia at the end of the previous instalment, sadly succumb to the illness and pass away.
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On screen, her husband Tom and colleagues and friends at Nonnatus House were devastated. And on Twitter, fans of the series were equally inconsolable.
See what they – and Charlotte Ritchie's fellow midwives – had to say about the big plot twist in the video below.
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