A 28-YEAR-OLD man has appeared before Blackburn magistrates charged with raping a 19-year-old girl.

Bernard Cullen, of Malton Street, Blackburn, was sent to Preston Crown Court for trial and was remanded on bail on condition that he lives at an address out of Blackburn, does not enter the town and subject to the provision of a £5,000 surety by his brother in law, Mark Derbyshire.