A MUSICIAN has admitted fraudulently obtaining more than £3,000 to provide a ceilidh band when he had no intention of doing so.

Thirty-year-old Gary Forrest pleaded guilty at Selkirk Sheriff Court to seven offences involving sums between £200 and £830 - totalling £3,710.

They happened between November 2014 and October 2015 at his home near Jedburgh.

The court heard that Forrest had already handed over £2500 to the police to compensate the people had booked his ceilidh band.

Forrest also pleaded guilty to a charge of assaulting his former partner at a house in Melrose in October.

Sheriff Peter Paterson deferred sentence until March 27 for the production of background reports.