A MAN has been charged after reports that a vehicle had been taken from outside a New Forest property.

Police were called at around midday on May 12 to reports a vehicle had been taken from outside an address in Fordingbridge.

It was later seen at around 11pm that evening around Tennyson Drive by officers who were patrolling the area.

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There are also suspicions that it had been involved in an incident earlier that evening where a driver had left a petrol station without payment.

Now 31-year-old man has been charged in connection with the incidents.

Joseph Arnold of no fixed abode was charged with driving a motor vehicle otherwise than in accordance with a license, making off without making payment and using a motor vehicle on a road/public place without third party insurance in connection with this incident.

He is due to appear at Southampton Magistrates Court on July 12.

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