Your average brown rat has long hairs sprouting from the nose, the cheeks and the eyebrows and there are rows of shorter ones along the sides of the mouth. Studies are being done on how they use these sensors to get around.

Soap fans were treated to high drama tonight as Emmerdale celebrated its 40th birthday with a live episode in which Carl King (Tom Lister) was battered to death with a brick.

'EastEnders' scooped the Best Soap prize at the British Soap Awards for the fourth year in a row last night.