CORONATION Street legend Anne Kirkbride is up for a British Soap Award nearly four months after her death.

The 60-year-old actress, who became a household favourite as Deidre Barlow, died in January. She had starred in the ITV soap for 44 years but had been away from the screen since last September following her diagnosis with cancer.

Kirkbride is nominated in the scene of the year category for the episode in which Deirdre threw a trifle – which were to be among her final scenes in Weatherfield.

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I’m a Celebrity winner Carl Fogarty and Top Gear star Richard Hammond led from the front on Sunday after joining thousands of other bikers at a charity rally.

Fogarty, riding a Ducati scrambler, and Hammond, astride a “boring” BMW R1200RT, both praised the work of the Midlands Air Ambulance before setting off on the charity’s fifth annual Bike4Life fund-raiser.

About 3,500 bikers turned out in the sunshine to join the 23-mile ride-out from Shrewsbury to the Bike4Life festival at RAF Cosford.

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And the rumour mill’s been abuzz that the great lord of television, also known as Simon Cowell, would possibly for the first time in his life, be hypnotised by a dog on Saturday night's episode of Britain’s Got Talent.

So when Krystyna Lennon introduced master hypnotist dog Princess on the BGT stage, everyone was primed to see what would happen, but also a bit dubious.

But weird things started to happen when volunteers were called to the stage to be hypnotised by the clever canine – they dropped on the floor like hot potatoes within seconds of staring into the adorable eyes of the black pooch.

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