'The Coronation Street actor Bill Roache has been charged over two
historic rape allegations against an underage girl who was 15 at the
time of the alleged incidents.
Mr Roache, 81, who has played Ken Barlow in the TV soap since 1960,
was arrested at his home in Wilmslow, Cheshire, this morning and was
still being interviewed at a police station late into the evening.
The Crown Prosecution Service has announced he will face two charges
of rape, and he will appear at Preston Magistrates’ Court on 14 May. Mr
Roache, awarded an MBE in 2001, faces two allegations of raping the girl
in Lancashire 46 years ago.'
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