A MAN has appeared in court charged with rape.
Timothy Jackson, 39, of Penrith, Cumbria, appeared at Houghton Magistrates' Court yesterday charged with raping a woman in Houghton-le-Spring, near Sunderland.
It follows an incident on Tuesday when a Houghton woman met a man for a blind date.
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