 Whitburn took service leave from March to July 2012, when John Yorke, a former executive producer of "EastEnders", was the acting editor.Yorke's arrival prompted charges that the programme was importing the values of "EastEnders" to Borsetshire, with fans and commentators complaining that characters were behaving unrealistically simply to generate conflict.This was denied by Yorke, who wrote that he agreed to take over "on one condition – that it stayed exactly as it was and that I didn't have to change anything."