TWO people have appeared before Burnley Magistrates accused of taking part in a £56,000 post office fraud plot.

Zubair Ahmed Mohmed, aged 26, and Fehmida Mohmed, aged 20, are charged with conspiring to obtain the cash by deception between December, 2000, and September 1 this year.

The defendants, who gave separate addresses in Blackburn Road, Bolton, were bailed to appear at Burnley Crown Court on November 5.