A 31-year-old man has appeared before York magistrates charged with assaulting a police sergeant and another officer with a bottle outside Fulford Road police station in the city.

Lee Martin Hughes, no fixed abode, is also accused of unlawful violence and stealing a chicken and a bottle of wine from Jackson's store in Fulford Road.

The offences are alleged to have occurred on Wednesday, at 6.45pm.

Hughes, who did not have a solicitor, was remanded in custody for a week.

Updated: 09:31 Friday, May 02, 2003