Fred Talbot

[7][9][11] Talbot began working for Granada Television in 1982, with The Final Frontier, an educational science series networked on ITV as part of their children's programming strand.

In April 2013, police arrested Talbot,[18] who refused to answer interview questions about allegations by men who claimed they had been abused as children.

[22] His trial began in January 2015,[23] accused of abusing four former pupils at Altrincham Grammar School and a fifth schoolboy from the Newcastle area, during an annual holiday in the 1970s.

[11] On 13 February 2015, a jury at Minshull Street Crown Court in Manchester found Talbot guilty of indecent assault against two teenage boys at the school,[26] and acquitted him of eight further charges.

[7][9][11][19] With reporting restrictions lifted, it was noted that a number of similar complaints against Talbot had since been passed by police to the procurator fiscal about alleged offences said to have been committed in Scotland.

[31] On 29 November 2017, Talbot was jailed for eight months for a further sexual assault, this time of a male over the age of 16, having admitted the offence at a previous hearing.

[34] In 2007, Talbot was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Science by Manchester Metropolitan University in recognition of bringing to a mass audience a better understanding of scientific and environmental issues.