The King has spoken. No, not that one, Richard III. Concluding a decade of research, voice coach Yvonne Morley-Chisholm finally released a clip this week of how she believed the Plantagenet king would have spoken.

Yvonne and her team have spent the past 10 years studying the measurements of Richard's jawline and skull shape, poring over his speech patterns, and worked with Liverpool's John Moore University to create an avatar which sounds like, er Jethro. Who said all that effort was wasted?

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There was a very funny scene in Coronation Street, in the days when it was just a bit of light-hearted fun rather than a digest of the latest social issues, where Fred Gee, the surly bald-headed barman, turned up for work suddenly sporting a full head of........

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