Poole speedway rider Darcy Ward has 'categorically denied' a charge of sexual assault.

The nineteen year old - who helped the Pirates to a League and Cup double last season - appeared in court today accused of assaulting a seventeen year old girl at a local hotel in August.

He's been bailed along with another defendant - a seventeen year old boy from Wiltshire - and they'll now appear at Bournemouth Crown Court next week.