A 15-year-old youth is due to appear in court today charged with the attempted rape of a mother-of-two.

The alleged attack is said to have taken place on Bank Holiday Monday, May 7, as the woman was walking, with her children, in Green Lane, in the Harrowgate Hill area of Darlington.

The children had cycled on ahead when the alleged attack on the woman, who is in her 30s, took place.

Officers arrested the youth, who is from Darlington but cannot be named for legal reasons, late on Friday afternoon.

He will appear before Sedgefield Magistrates Court, in Newton Aycliffe, today.