A man has been charged with assault following an arrest in Great Yeldham.

Daniel Pretty was arrested on Monday on suspicion of actual bodily harm and assault with intent to resist arrest at an address in Leather Lane.

it comes following allegations an officer was headbutted and another bitten whilst attending an incident in the same street at around 5.20pm.

Neither officer is said to have been seriously injured in the alleged attack.

Pretty, 29, of Goodchild Way, Great Yeldham, is due to appear at Colchester Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday, January 23.