Emmerdale (ITV)

Young love, isn't it wonderful? Andy bought girlfriend Katie a surprise present - a hairbrush. An odd gift, you might think, but Andy was embarrassed to go shopping in Hotten Pharmacy. As well as purchasing what he really wanted, he picked up a hairbrush too. "I thought it might make it look less obvious what I was up to," he explained.

Don't jump to the conclusion that he'd gone to buy what barbers used to call something for the weekend. It was too late for that. Andy had gone for a pregnancy testing kit. What a romantic gesture.

There he was strolling in the park, one hand holding Katie's hand and the other clutching the pregnancy kit. Andy's a decent lad. He's strayed occasionally - like setting fire to the barn in which his adoptive mother was rolling in the hay with her toyboy lover - but essentially Andy is what your mother would call "a nice boy", give or take the odd arson attack.

He and Katie are the Romeo and Juliet of Emmerdale, being kept apart by their fathers. It's a bit of a locking the stable door after the horse has bolted scenario as the parents didn't impose the ban on them seeing each other until after they'd caught Andy in bed with the underage Katie.

The star-crossed lovers have confronted the dads to plead their case, although letting the pregnancy scare slip out wasn't a wise move. The youngsters have now hit on an ingenious plan to win them over - Katie will get pregnant so they'll have no option but to let the young lovers be together.

Andy's brother Robert was worried about her dad's reaction. "If you got Katie pregnant, he'll be round with a rusty knife," he said. That sounds better than sending Zoe, the lesbian vet going through a rough patch after kicking her drink habit. Only this week she suggested putting Ray's dog down, although the mutt only had a cough. Goodness knows what she'd do to Andy.