It’s easier to look good if you’re a girl because you just let the bloke lead.You, Lisa Faulkner and Nicola Stephenson in Holby City have been dubbed the three witches Why?A director called us that once. I don’t know where he got it from – maybe it’s because we cackle a lot (although we’re very well-behaved). Maybe it’s because we got on really well at work and have three very distinct looks. The director in question got us a broomstick each when we left.Is there a sense of competition between you?No, because we’re all quite different, although having said that Nicola and I have gone for the same jobs recently.

It doesn’t get competitive, though, because we both know it’s not always about talent. And besides you can’t let competition or jealousy come between friends.How would you describe your own style?Vast It depends on my mood. I have my trendy phases, my Laura Ashley phases, my combat phases. I’m going through a baggy combats phase at the moment and in the evenings I wear short skirts I love a short skirt. I’m more of a high street than a designer girl, although I go through phases with that as well.What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever been given?Always make sure you have your bus fare home ‘Babyfather’ starts on 30 October on BBC2. Scientists who carried out the world’s biggest research study into canine behaviour have found the animals may have a personality after all.

In fact, the hounds can be pigeon-holed into one of five main human characteristics. This can be used in the selection of service dogs and breeding animals, as well as predicting behaviour problems in pet dogs,” says Dr Kenth Svartberg of the Department of Zoology at Stockholm University, who led the research.The team, who report their findings this week in the journal Applied Animal Behaviour Science, carried out tests on 15,329 dogs from 164 different breeds to see whether they had any personality and if so, what it was.Over a four-year period, 201 observers scored the dogs’ reactions in a variety of gruelling tests, including being taken by surprise by white-sheeted men pretending to be ghosts, a suddenly appearing human-like dummy and loud noises and gunfire. Reactions to flying objects and fleeing strangers were also assessed.When the scores were analysed, the scientists worked out the different personality types among dogs to be curiosity/fearlessness, chase-proneness, sociability, aggressiveness and playfulness.Thus, terriers tend to be more sociable and not so curious, while sheepdogs are likely to score high on curiosity.The findings add to a growing body of research on dog behaviour. Psychologists say that dogs may be able to understand human gestures as a result of 10,000 years of domestication.