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Tuesday, April 9, 2013

SARAH HARDING DEFIANT - Daily Star

ABOVE: Sarah Harding is facing a criminal charge

Sarah was very upset when she was arrested and charged. The offences are pretty serious.

8th April 2013

By Meg Jorsh

SARAH HARDING stuck two fingers up at the police after her mobile phone driving arrest.

The ex-Girls Aloud babe, 31, tweeted afterwards: ?If I?d observed all the rules I?d never have got anywhere.?

She allegedly tried to outrun a police cyclist who spotted her making a call behind the wheel of her 4x4.

She was flagged down on Charing Cross Road, central London, at 6pm on Thursday. Sarah was then taken to Holborn Police Station after a roadside conversation with officers.

A source said: ?Sarah was very upset when she was arrested and charged. The offences are pretty serious.?

But by Saturday night, the singer was back in her studio at home in Chalfont St Peter, Bucks.

As she worked on material for her new solo career, worried Sarah told her 96,000 Twitter followers: ?Hope u get 2 hear it. If the cover track I?m about to record in my studio tonight didnt relate to most of humanity I probably wouldn?t bother.?

She has been bailed to appear on two charges at London?s Highbury Magistrates? Court on April 16.

She faces a maximum ?1,000 fine and losing her licence for talking on her mobile and a further ?5,000 fine for failing to stop for police.

A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: ?The charges are failing to stop for police and driving whilst using a mobile phone.?

The singer experienced difficult times after her break-up from DJ fianc? Tom Crane, 32, in September 2011.

She checked into rehab in South Africa for addiction to sleeping pills and alcohol shortly afterwards and had a violent hotel bust-up with boyfriend Theo De Vries, 36, whom she met at the clinic.

But last week, she claimed to be ?200% better? since settling with new lover, the DJ MRK1.

The arrest comes after Girls Aloud announced they have split for good after a 10-year reunion tour earlier this year.