A 26-YEAR-OLD Stroud man has been ordered to do unpaid work after he admitted assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

Benjamin Wilcox of Meadow Way, Dudbridge, Stroud assaulted Billy Phillips in the town on February 24.

Cheltenham magistrates ordered Wilcox to do 120 hours of unpaid work and imposed a community order for 12 months.

Wilcox also admitted damaging a police cell at Compass House, Quedgeley, Gloucester on the same date.