A MAN from Great Chesterford is due to appear in court charged with four offences including threatening a person with a machete.

Harry Shakespeare, a 22-year-old unemployed man of Jacksons Lane, will appear at Colchester Magistrates Court today (Friday June 28).

He stands charged with threatening a person with a machete at Great Chesterford railway station, dangerous driving, theft and assault.

The charges relate to an incident on June 15.