A BUDDING scientist from Blackburn will don a white lab coat this week when he appears in a hit BBC children’s show.

Six-year-old Joshua Queen was selected during an audition at Longshaw Infants School to star in an episode of Nina and the Neurons.

He took part in a series of experiments led by ‘super scientist’ Nina in the sixth series of the educational science programme on the CBeebies channel.

Joshua and his mum, Leanne Rimmer, 27, of Pilmuir Road, were invited by the BBC to travel to Glasgow, and then Preston, for filming.

Leanne said: “The show is great. Children ask Nina a question and then they do experiments to work out what the answer is.

“Joshua loved it.

“They had made a laboratory set for them and he was in a little white lab coat.

“In Preston they went to where the police keep their horses and did some experiments with them.

“The question was ‘what is ear wax for?’ and they looked at horses’ ear wax.”

Nina and the Neurons is a series of 15-minute programmes made by BBC Children’s Scotland for CBeebies, aimed at the four to six age group, which focus on the five senses.

Each programme starts with Nina practising an experiment, or demonstrating an activity, for her science show later that day.

Nina and the Neurons airs from 4.45pm to 5pm tomorrow on CBeebies.