Man charged for 'airport bomb hoax'

Paul Chambers, 26, said in January he was due to fly from Robin Hood Airport, Doncaster, more than a week after snow closed a runway there.

He was arrested on suspicion of orchestrating a bomb hoax.

The alleged message on Twitter about blowing up the airport was reported to police.

South Yorkshire Police said on Thursday: "A 26-year-old Doncaster man has been charged with sending by a public communications network a message that was grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character contrary to Section 127 of the Communications Act 2003."

A force spokesman said Chambers, from Byram Court in Balby, Doncaster, is to appear before magistrates in the town on Friday.