A former BBC Somerset radio presenter accused of the rape and indecent assault of children has been released on conditional bail.

Peter Rowell, aged fifty-three, was bailed by magistrates yesterday, but has a curfew, can only leave home with a repsonsible adult and had to surrender his passport.

Rowell, who's previously denied other child sex offences, will next appear at Bristol Crown Court on June the twenty-fourth for a plea hearing.