A 15-year-old has been charged with causing damage to the value of nearly £7,200 to two JCB diggers on a new building site near Potters Leisure Centre, in Coast Road, Hopton, near Yarmouth.

HOPTON: A 15-year-old has been charged with causing damage to the value of nearly £7,200 to two JCB diggers on a building site near Potters Leisure Centre, in Coast Road, Hopton, near Yarmouth.

Officers from the southern villages safer neighbourhood team arrested the local youth and also charged him with theft as well as driving licence, insurance and test certificate offences.

The youth has been bailed to appear at Peterborough Juvenile Court on Thursday, July 10.