A MAN has been charged with racially-aggravated harassment.

Matthew Brood, of Benfield in Grasmere, is due to appear at South Cumbria Magistrates' Court on July 15.

The 34-year-old is accused of racially or religiously aggravated harassment without violence and a further, alternative offence of harassment without violence.

Brood was due to appear at South Cumbria Magistrates' Court on Wednesday but the case has been adjourned until July.