MAGISTRATES have issued a warrant for the arrest of a company director who has disappeared from his North Yorkshire home.

Jeremy Paul White should have been in court at Harrogate yesterday to face two charges brought by the Department of Trade and Industry.

When White failed to turn up prosecutor Jacqueline Duff told the court he had left his last known address in Crosby Road, Northallerton, and was now believed to be living in Aylesbury, Bucks.

White is accused of acting as a director of Harrogate's Pit Stop Autocare Ltd between April 1995 and July 1998, while an undischarged bankrupt, A second count accuses him of obtaining credit of £42,750 from the Halifax Bank in June 1997 before a discharge from bankruptcy.

Presiding magistrate Mike Garnett issued a no-bail warrant for White's arrest.