Television weatherman Fred Talbot is facing ten charges of indecent assault after a police investigation into alleged sexual abuse dating back to the 1960s.
The Edinburgh-born former biology teacher appeared at Dumfries Sheriff Court yesterday at a preliminary hearing and was remanded in custody.
Talbot, 66, who is also facing two breach of the peace charges, made no plea and will appear in court again on Friday, March 11.
He was a teacher at Altrincham Grammar School for Boys in Cheshire but later found celebrity as the weather presenter on ITV's This Morning programme.
In May last year, the Crown Office said: 'The procurator fiscal has received a report relating to incidents involving a 65-year-old man [Talbot], said to have occurred between January 1968 and January 1981.'
Yesterday, the Crown Office said Talbot had made no plea or declaration and was committed for further examination and remanded in custody.
Talbot, of Bowdon, Cheshire, a former pupil at North Cestrian Grammar School, was a founding member of the Altrincham and District Astronomical Society in 1964.
The former presenter, an openly gay bachelor, jointly discovered the June Lyrids meteor shower in 1966. (more...)
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