A man has been charged with making a false bomb threat after a suspicious package was left near a town centre.

Police attended Snargate Street in Dover just after 11am yesterday following a spurious bomb-threat call to 999.

A cordon was put in place while the street was searched as a precaution and officers were still at the scene at about 4pm - almost five hours after the call came through.

But after the call was deemed to be a hoax, an arrest was made the same day.

Dean Sarjeant, 52, of London Road, Dover was taken into custody and is due before Folkestone Magistrates’ Court today.