AN 18-year-old man has been charged with two separate sexual attacks in Cleckheaton.

Jonathan Beech, of Cleckheaton, has been charged with a sexual assault on a 13-year-old girl and attempted rape of a woman.

He was due to appear before Kirklees magistrates in Huddersfield this morning.

The first of the alleged offences occurred on Sunday afternoon when the 13-year-old girl was walking in Prospect Terrace, Cleckheaton, at around 2pm.

The alleged attempted rape happened on Monday at 3pm on the Spen Valley Greenway behind Tesco in Cleckheaton.

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