A 20-year-old man has been remanded in custody after admitting stealing metal from the roof of Hawick Town Hall and two nearby buildings.
Joshua Chalmers, of Croft Road, Hawick, appeared from custody at Selkirk Sheriff Court on Monday and pleaded guilty to the town hall metal theft on May 3. He also admitted stealing lead from the roofs of Hawick Conservative Club in Croft Road between May 2 and 4, and from another property in North Bridge Street last Friday.
Chalmers was also on bail from Edinburgh Sheriff Court at the time of the offences.
An application for bail was refused by Sheriff Kevin Drummond and he was remanded in custody until June 7 for the preparation of background reports.
His co-accused – Nicole Kane, 18, also of Croft Road – had a not guilty plea to stealing metal from the North Bridge Street property accepted by the Crown. But she admitted a charge of attempting to pervert the course of justice by pretending to police officers that she was another named female with a different date of birth while on bail.
Sentence was deferred on Kane for good behaviour until August 23.