Former TV weatherman Fred Talbot has been convicted of a string of historical sex offences against boys during school trips.
The 67-year-old has been found guilty of indecently assaulting seven teenage boys during camping and boating excursions while he was a biology teacher at a school in the Manchester area in the 1970s and 1980s.
Talbot, of Greater Manchester, had denied the allegations, but was convicted of seven of nine charges following a trial at Lanark Sheriff Court.
The two charges he was cleared of were one of indecent assault and one of lewd, indecent and libidinous practices.
The offences were against boys aged 15 to 17, and happened during separate trips to Scotland.
One near the St Mary's Loch area in Moffat, Dumfries and Galloway, and the Caledonian Canal in Inverness in the Highlands.
Several witnesses were heard during the trial, recounting their experiences of being away from their parents in school trips for the first time.
Among the witnesses was Stone Roses frontman Ian Brown, who was not an alleged victim but was one of Talbot's pupils.
The 54-year-old said he never forgot the moment the teacher invited one of his friends to sleep in his tent during a school trip.
Brown said Talbot would personally select students to go on his excursions.
Thursday's conviction comes as the former TV personality was already serving a five year jail sentence for indecently assaulting two school boys during school canal barge trips in the Cheshire area in the mid-1970s.
The jury took four hours over two days to consider their verdict. Sentence was deferred until 15 June.
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