Three workmen have been banned from entering Oban following an incident in a local nightspot.
Neil McKinven, 34, Cameron Barclay, 22, and Jamie Hynes, 29, face several charges, including assault and brandishing bottles at Skipinnish Ceilidh House, George Street.
The attacks are alleged to have taken place in the early hours of this morning.
The men, who were staying in the town while laying broadband cables, appeared at Oban Sheriff Court today from custody.
McKinven, of Airdrie, Barclay, and Hynes, both of Coatbridge, pleaded not guilty to all charges.
All three are accused of assaulting Alan McCallum and James MacLean by repeatedly punching them on the head and body to their injury.
The trio are also accused of assaulting Edward Gibb by butting him on the head, repeatedly punching and kneeing him on the head and body and brandishing bottles at him to his injury.
They are further accused of assaulting Angus McPhail, the owner of Skipinnish, by punching him on the head and body and biting him to his injury.
Hynes is charged with having an offensive weapon, a bottle, while McKinven is accused of having a broken bottle.
All three are charged with behaving in a threatening or abusive manner, likely to cause a reasonable person to suffer fear and alarm, in that they did shout, swear, challenge others to fight, brandish bottles an utter threats of violence.
Fiscal depute Jenny Sapiano said: “We would just ask for the special bail condition that they do not enter the Oban area, except for court related business.”
Trial was fixed for August 8, with an earlier hearing on July 22.
Mr McPhail said: “It is never nice to have that sort of thing going on, especially when we are so unused to it in this part of the world.
“The stewards handled it well and no one was seriously hurt.
“It had been a good night, there was a great ceilidh on and people from all over the world were there. By the time the incident took place most of them had left. It doesn’t reflect well on Oban.”