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Coronation Street star Barbara Knox arrested on suspicion of dri
nk-driving
By: Zax Date: March 28, 2014, 8:14 am
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Corrie's Barbara Knox and her daughter have been arrested on
suspicion of drink-driving.
The Rita Tanner actress, 80, was being driven home by daughter
Maxine Ashcroft when police pulled them over.
Maxine, 56, was breathalysed before being taken to a police
station where further tests allegedly showed her nearly three
times the legal limit.
Barbara - who has been on Coronation Street for more than 40
years - later went to Knutsford Police Station, in Cheshire, to
demand Maxine's release, reportedly yelling:"Do you know who I
am?"
Officers suspected Barbara had driven to the station under the
influence of alcohol and arrested the veteran actress.
A source said: "Barbara wasn't happy her daughter had been
arrested.
"She kept yelling, 'Do you know who I am?'
"She turned up at the police station knocking the door and
demanding her daughter be released.
"But the officers suspected she had driven to the station
herself so they arrested her as well."
A Cheshire Police spokesman last night said: "Police stopped a
car in Hollow Lane in Knutsford.
A 56-year-old woman from Gloucestershire was arrested on
suspicion of drink-driving.
"An 80-year-old woman from Knutsford later arrived at Knutsford
Police Station and was also arrested on suspicion of
drink-driving."
A Crown Prosecution Service spokeswoman said that Maxine was
suspected of driving with 97 micrograms of alcohol in 100
millilitres of breath - above the legal limit of 35 micrograms.
Barbara was released on bail pending further police enquiries
while Maxine will appear at Macclesfield magistrates court on
Wednesday.
A Coronation Street spokeswoman said: "This is a personal and
private matter."
Twice-divorced Barbara's biggest moment in the ITV soap was in
1989 when evil Alan Bradley died under a tram while pursuing
long-suffering Rita through Blackpool.
The mother-of-three was initially only booked to appear in two
episodes of Corrie in 1964 as club entertainer Rita.
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