SENTENCE has been deferred on a 41-year-old man who admitted being involved in a disturbance at his Galashiels home.

Neil Wilkinson pleaded guilty to a charge of behaving in a threatening or abusive manner in Larchbank Street on June 30.

He admitted shouting and swearing and making threatening, offensive and abusive remarks and brandishing a knife.

Sentence was deferred at Selkirk Sheriff Court for six weeks for a psychiatric assessment to be prepared.