DJ Tim Westwood has been charged with four counts of rape.

The Metropolitan Police confirmed on Thursday that the former BBC Radio 1 DJ faces four counts of rape, along with two counts of sexual assault and nine counts of indecent assault.

Westwood, 68, is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 11 November.

According to police, the charges relate to seven different women, with the alleged offences said to have taken place between 1983 and 2016.

The announcement follows a lengthy Metropolitan Police investigation into the British DJ, who was once one of BBC Radio 1's most prominent figures.

In a statement, Scotland Yard said Westwood is accused of indecently assaulting a 17-year-old girl in Fulham, west London, in 1983, and sexually assaulting a woman in her 20s in Vauxhall, south London, in 1986.

He is also accused of sexually assaulting and raping a teenager aged between 17 and 18 in central London in the mid-1990s, and raping and sexually assaulting another teenager of the same age between 2000 and 2001.

The Met added that Westwood is further accused of raping a woman in her 20s in London in 2010, allegedly sexually assaulting a woman in her 20s in Stroud, Gloucestershire, that same year, and sexually assaulting another woman in her 20s in Finchley, north London, in 2016.

The DJ has previously strongly denied all allegations.

Westwood joined the BBC in 1994 and left the broadcaster in 2013.