REPORTS have been ordered into a 31-year-old man involved in an early morning disturbance in Kelso.

Danny Grieve pleaded guilty to behaving in a threatening or abusive manner, challenging people to fight and issuing homophobic slurs in Orchard Park and Inchmyre on August 28.

He also admitted threatening to kill police officers and assaulting a police officers and attempting to head-butt them.

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Grieve, of Orchard Park, Kelso, also pleaded guilty to shouting and swearing in Hawick Police Station and kicking and punching a vehicle and uttering homophobic slurs.

Jedburgh Sheriff Court was told the offences occurred between 5am and 7am.

Sentence was deferred until October 24 for a Criminal Justice Social Work Report and a Restriction of Liberty Order assessment.