Coronation Street star, Bill Roache has paid a loving tribute to his late wife at her public memorial service today.

Speaking at the service today, Roache said: “[Sara] was the perfect mother to Verity and Will. She did everything. She dressed us, fed us, and she made the house beautiful.

“She paid the bills, she taxed the cars. She jokingly said to me some time ago ‘if I went before you, you wouldn’t have a clue what to do would you?’ How right she was. But it wasn’t just that, and being the loving wife and mother, she really was my best friend.”

He added: “I am the luckiest man alive to have had such a loving, loyal, devoted beautiful wife for 35 years and to have two beautiful and loving children in Verity and Will. Sara has fulfilled her destiny and gone to a wonderful home to join our daughter Edwina. I know, and I really do know, she is in a beautiful place and we are eternally connected.”