AN ULVERSTON man will appear before South Cumbria Magistrates' Court today, charged with common assault against an emergency worker.

Mr Benjamin Fisher, 44 of Priory Road is alleged to have assaulted PC Edmondson on May 6, 2020 whilst the officer was acting in the exercise of her functions as such a worker.

On the same day, the defendant also allegedly used threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour towards Mr James Williamson with intent to cause him to believe immediate unlawful violence would be used against him, or to provoke violence.