A 39-YEAR-OLD woman has been sentenced for assaulting another woman in the Cotswolds.

Kerry Booth, of Halifax Way, Moreton-in-Marsh, pleaded guilty when she appeared before Cheltenham Magistrates Court on January 21.

Magistrates heard how Booth assaulted the victim in Moreton-in-Marsh on August 18, last year.

Booth was ordered to pay compensation of £150 and fined £40.