BACKGROUND reports have been ordered into a 27-year-old man who admitted assaulting staff members at the Morrison's store in Hawick.

And he also challenged council contact staff in Galashiels to fight.

Michael Wheaton pleaded to two counts of assaulting staff on May 14.

He also pleaded guilty to behaving in a threatening or abusive manner in the Scottish Borders Council offices in Paton Street, Galashiels, on May 26, by shouting and swearing, challenging staff to fight and throwing a bottle.

The following day he made a telephone call to a council employee which contained offensive remarks and he also threatened a police constable and his family.

Wheaton, who gave an address in Kirkintilloch, near Glasgow, had sentence deferred at Selkirk Sheriff Court until October 24 for a Criminal Justice Social Work Report tobe prepared.