TWO people were charged last night in connection with an incident in which a police officer was allegedly stabbed in the back.

PC Rod Bloxham, of North Yorkshire Police, was injured outside a house in Tennant Street, Selby, on Wednesday night. He has since been released from hospital. A male juvenile was charged with wounding and will appear at York Youth Court, on Tuesday.

A woman has been charged with assault, resisting arrest and affray, and will appear before Selby magistrates on Thursday