A MAN has been charged in relation to an incident in which two girls were threatened with beheading outside an army recruitment centre.

Marius Dura, 26, of no fixed address, is due to appear at Gateshead Magistrates Court on Monday charged with threatening behaviour.

The allegation relates to an incident in Alexandra Road in Gateshead on January 21 when two men are said to have shouted at two tenage girls as they left a Territorial Army centre.