A MAN has been charged in connection with an incident which saw a racist comment made in a pub in Wantage. 

Thames Valley Police has charged Philip Knowles, 54, of Sherwood Avenue, Abingdon, with public order offences.

On Tuesday August, 14 officers were called to The Swan in Market Place following reports of a man becoming aggressive and making a racist comment.

Knowles was arrested on the same day and was charged on Wednesday with racially aggravated harassment/alarm or distress and using threatening/abusive/insulting words or behaviour.

He has been released on police bail to appear before Oxford Magistrates’ Court on October 18.