A MAN from Leeds is to stand trial after denying the theft of a handbag from a car parked at Ribblehead, near Ingleton.

Mark Francis, 30, is charged with stealing the handbag, containing £30 in cash, a bank card, driving licence and passport, from the car on November 13 last year.

He is further charged with stealing £60 cash from a bank machine later the same day from Hawes. Francis, of Barncroft Drive, Seacroft, appeared at Skipton Magistrates' Court when he denied both charges. A date was fixed for his trial at the Skipton court on May 23. He was allowed bail on condition he not enter North Yorkshire, apart to attend court.