Talbot taught biology before he became a regular on the floating weather map in Liverpool's Albert Dock for ITV's This Morning

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Former ITV weather presenter Fred Talbot has been ordered to appear in court charged with sexually assaulting a sixth-form pupil during his teaching years.

The 64-year-old was issued with a summons on Friday to appear at Manchester magistrates court on 2 July in relation to an offence of indecent assault against a 16-year-old pupil at Altrincham Grammar School for Boys in 1982.

Talbot, from Bowdon in south Manchester, taught biology before he became a regular on the floating weather map in Liverpool's Albert Dock for ITV's This Morning. He is already accused of nine counts of indecent assault and one count of buggery against five other former pupils, three of whom were under 16 at the time.

He appeared in court in March to deny those 10 offences, which were alleged to have been committed between 25 October 1968 and 2 August 1983.

Four of those alleged victims attended Altrincham Grammar School for Boys and one was at Elgin High in Newcastle upon Tyne. The first six of the 10 charges relate to indecent assaults on one complainant, a boy aged under 16 at the time; they include alleged offences of masturbation, oral sex and digital penetration, all taking place between 25 October 1969 and 24 October 1970.

The remaining charges are: an allegation of indecent assault, by masturbation, on a male under 16, between 1 January 1975 and 31 December 1976; the same offence against another male, also under 16, between the same dates; and indecent assault by sexual touching on a fourth complainant between 1 January 1977 and 31 December 1977.

The final count, of buggery, is said to have occurred against the fifth complainant, aged under 21 at the time, on or around 2 August 1983.

None of the complainants can be identified for legal reasons.

Under Talbot's bail conditions he must live at his home address and have no contact with witnesses and alleged victims, nor any unsupervised contact with a child.

Police raided Talbot's home in December 2012 while he was on a Caribbean cruise.

Until then he was a weather presenter on ITV's north-west regional news programme Granada Reports but he has not appeared on the show since December 2012.

He is due to stand trial in January 2015.