Binnie Roberts her girlfriend Della Alexander were the first lesbian couple to be featured in "EastEnders". Their inclusion was an attempt to portray positive examples of characters who just happen to be homosexual. Their lesbian kiss accounted for some 45 percent of viewer complaints to the BBC regarding "EastEnders" in 1994; provoking more complaints than any other television programme that year (according to research published by the Broadcasting Standards Council in 1995). In 2005 their lesbian kiss was featured in E4's "X Rated: Top 20 Most Controversial TV Moments"; a documentary examining British TV's most talked about on-screen moments. It was placed
William Harrison Binnie William Harrison Binnie William Harrison "Bill" Binnie is a New Hampshire industrialist, investment banker, and philanthropist, currently president of Carlisle Capital Corporation, president of media company New Hampshire 1 Network and owner of Carlisle One Media, and former Chairman of the Finance Committee for the New Hampshire Republican State Committee. He also a former candidate for the Republican nomination for the U. S. Senate in 2010. He was formerly chairman of Carlisle Plastics, Inc. until that firm was sold to Tyco International in September 1996. Binnie was born in Scotland and immigrated to the United States at the age of