A FIRE officer will appear in court charged with indecent assaults that allegedly took place at a Witham fire service training centre in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Mark Wilson, 51, from Thorley Park in Bishop's Stortford, will appear at Chelmsford Magistrates' Court this morning.

He was summonsed to the court by post, following a lengthy and complex investigation by detectives from the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate.