DETECTIVES have charged a 28 year old man has been charged with two counts of burglary and one count of attempted burglary.

He was due to appear at Coleraine Magistrates Court on Friday.

As is normal procedure, all charges are reviewed by the PPS.

It is believed that the charges are in connection with a number of burglaries in the Larne area in the early hours of Friday 13 June.

The burglaries involved properties in Ballycarry, Glenarm and Greenisland with intruders taking car keys from inside the house then making off in the vehicles.