FORMER Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood has been charged with rape and sexual assault.

The 68-year-old is accused of offences against seven different women as young as 17 years old, the Metropolitan Police said yesterday.

He is charged with four counts of rape, nine counts of indecent assault and two counts of sexual assault, the force said.

The alleged offences are said to have taken place between 1983 and 2016.

Mr Westwood is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on November 10.

Police have said the former Radio 1 DJ is alleged to have indecently assaulted a 17-year-old girl in the Fulham area of London in 1983.

He is also accused of sexually assaulting a woman in her twenties in the Vauxhall area of London in 1986 as well as raping and sexually assaulting a woman, aged between 17 and 18, in London between 1995 and 1996.

Westwood is alleged to have raped and sexually assaulted a woman aged 17 to 18 between 2000 and 2001 and raped a woman in her twenties in 2010, with the alleged offences also in London.