ACTRESS Denise Welch has apologised to police after reporting her car stolen - when she had just forgotten where she parked it.

The Wilmslow-based former Coronation Street and Waterloo Road star told viewers of ITV chat show Loose Women it had been taken from Macclesfield rail station.

But all the time her SsangYong Rodius was right where she left it - in the car park of The Rectory pub in Wilmslow.

Embarrassed Denise, 50, said:"I'm mortified - but it was a genuine mistake."