A 29-YEAR-OLD smashed a television and damaged a door frame during a disturbance in a Peebles hotel, Selkirk Sheriff Court has been told.

James Vaughan, of Bellerophon Drive, Penicuik, challenged people to fight and issued threats and then assaulted a man during the incident on July 9.

He went onto assault a police officer and then obstructed other officers by struggling with them.

Vaughan was placed on a high-tariff structured deferred sentence for the next three months.

He was ordered to be of good behaviour until February 21 when his case will be reviewed.