A TEENAGER has been charged in connection with allotment burglaries in Stow-on-the-Wold.

The 14-year-old boy from the town has been charged with five counts of burglary in connection to shed break-ins at the allotments at Spring Gardens.

He has also been charged with criminal damage at an empty property on Well Lane and arson in the garden of a home in The Park.

He will appear at Gloucester Youth Court on April 19.