A MAN has been charged with the attempted theft of a cash machine in Moreton.

Tali Smith 27, from Bagworth, Leicester was arrested on Thursday in connection with the incident at the Aldi store in November last year.

He appeared before magistrates in Cheltenham on Friday February 23.

In November, vandals reportedly tried to steal a cash machine from a Cotswold supermarket after reversing a vehicle into the building.

Police were called to reports of vehicles behaving suspiciously in the car park at Aldi in Stow Road, Moreton-in-Marsh which only opened in October.

They found that a vehicle had been reversed into the building and a number of panes of glass had been broken.

The offenders had then attempted to remove the free standing cash machine from the store.

The alleged incident was shortly before 2am on Saturday November 11.

The attempted theft of a cash machine follows a host of similar raids in the area in recent times.

Three cash machines have been ripped out in nearby Bourton-on-the-Water in the last two years, whilst a cash machine was stolen from the Co-Operative in Upper Rissington.