A WOMAN is due to appear in court after she was charged with assaulting three people.

Rebecca Cowley will face magistrates after she was accused of three counts of assault by beating in an alleged incident in Ulverston.

The 38-year-old defendant is accused of assaulting three women in the town on August 1.

The defendant, of Lesh Lane in Barrow, is due to appear before the bench at South Cumbria Magistrates' Court.

She will face magistrates following the charges on Monday February 1.