Former TV weather presenter Fred Talbot has been jailed for five years for indecently assaulting two schoolboys.

Talbot was convicted of assaulting the pupils, aged 14 and 15, from Altrincham Grammar School for Boys in the 1970s, during his former career as a biology teacher.

The judge at Manchester's Minshull Street Crown Court told Talbot: "You deliberately and indecently assaulted the two of them for your own gratification."

During his trial, Talbot, 65, who was known to millions for his forecasts on a floating weather map for ITV's This Morning show, was described as a "chancer".

He was said to have been "obsessed" with teenage boys and "could not help himself", particularly when he had been drinking.

Victims described how they were forced to sleep naked with him during school trips on canal barges.

One told how boys would take turns to sleep in his bed on one of the trips, and that at one stage Talbot "started talking to me about sexual stuff" before assaulting him.

Talbot resigned in disgrace from the school in 1984 after making indecent comments to two 15-year-old pupils, but hid his past when his TV break came a year later.

Meanwhile, police investigating alleged historical abuse involving Talbot have submitted a report to Scottish prosecutors.

The allegations are said to relate to events over a 13-year period, from 1968 to 1981.

The report was received from Police Scotland on Thursday and is currently being considered by the Procurator Fiscal.