Barbara Knox pleads guilty to drink driving

Barbara Knox, who plays Rita Tanner in Coronation Street, has pleaded guilty to drink driving.  Barbara Knox was at Crewe magistrates court today where she was fined and given a 12-month driving ban.

Digital Spy reports that she previously denied that she committed the offence, but chose to change her plea at today's hearing, which comes more than ten months after she was arrested in Cheshire last March.

The 81-year-old - who must pay a fine of £3,000 - was told by the judge that her ban would almost be over had she admitted to the offence from the outset.

She was held by police shortly after her daughter, 56-year-old Maxine Ashcroft, had been arrested for the same offence.

Ashcroft was found to be three times over the legal limit, and was banned from driving for two years last year.

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