A MAN and a woman have been charged in connection with a spate of house burglaries in Cinderford in July.

Mark Andrew Round, 46 and of Villa Close, Ruspidge and Michelle Williams, 39 and of Cromwell Street in Gloucester, have both been charged with seven counts of house burglary and one count of receiving stolen goods.

They will appear before magistrates in Cheltenham on January 9.

The break-ins happened in Church Road and Ruspidge Road between July 24 and July 28 this year.