POLICE have charged a man and a woman with the robbery of a bank in Essex.

Keith Palfreman, 32, and Kelly Greer, 28, will appear at Colchester Magistrates’ Court this morning.

Palfreman, of Bentley Avenue, Jaywick, and Greer, of Sydney Street, Brightlingsea, were arrested on Monday.

Police arrested the pair within an hour of an alleged robbery at just before 2pm at Barclays Bank in Brightlingsea High Street.