FORMER East Lancashire soap veteran William Roache has spoken about his spiritual beliefs – saying 'love is the life force'.

The Corrie star – Ken Barlow in the ITV1 soap – believes we are moving into a 'Golden Age' of spirituality.

He told Silent Voices, a spiritual, paranormal and metaphysical magazine, that society was 'moving into a higher vibration' and that the world will 'change dramatically' on December 12.

Bill said: "This will be the Golden Age, when a majority will know they are love and they are spiritual beings.

"The earth will continue to cleanse itself while material and negative things will collapse and cease to be," he reportedly told the magazine.

Bill, whose family lived in Haslingden and Rawtenstall until Bill and his wife Anna divorced in 1974, said he attended a spiritual group and that he believes physics can predict the future.

He added: "The energy and light of the Creator is love. Love is the life force, it is everything, it is the law of attraction.”