THREE men have been charged with the burglary of a derelict hotel in Newnham High Street in the early hours of last Thursday (June 21).

A large quantity of copper piping was taken during the burglary.

 Mark Kenneth James Griffin, 42 and of Mathews Way, Stroud; David Richard Tucker, 42 and of Evesham Road, Cleeve Prior, Evesham; and Adrian Paul Kennedy, 39 and of Westward Road, Stroud were bailed to appear before Cheltenham magistrates on July 17.