A MAN appeared before magistrates at Rochdale charged with stealing drums of diesel from an oil depot.

Andrew Dootson, aged 41, of Alder Avenue, Bury, pleaded guilty and will be sentenced on June 7, to establish whether he is fit enough to carry out community service.

A warrant was issued for another man, Alan Holt, aged 32, of Holme Avenue, Bury, who failed to appear before the bench yesterday.

Dootson, who was caught by police stealing the diesel from Crown Oils, Heap Bridge, Bury, accepted he had behaved in a wrong manner.