Two men have been charged with burglary in a crackdown across west Kent this week.

Alan Savage, 44, of Kingsley Road, Maidstone, was arrested on Wednesday, charged with burglary and remanded to court.

It came after jewellery and a designer watch were among items stolen from Blythe Road, Maidstone on April 25.

He was also charged in connection with a break-in reported on April 28 in Chatham Road.

Joe Silver, 23, of Benhall Mill Road, Tunbridge Wells was charged with burglary following an incident in Church Road, Tunbridge Wells on May 6.

Silver will appear at Sevenoaks Magistrates’ Court on July 2.

Other arrests this month have included that of a 25-year-old man from Tonbridge, after cash was reported to have been stolen from offices in Holmes Court, Medway Wharf Road, Tonbridge on March 24.