A man has faced court after being charged over a fight in Canberra’s south on Wednesday morning  that left a man in hospital.

Brian Lindsay Jackson, 32, was charged with recklessly or intentionally inflicting actual bodily harm during a fight in Gilmore.  Police confirmed  two men were fighting on a street, and a knife was involved.

Neighbours are understood to have intervened.

A spokeswoman for the hospital said the injured man was discharged on Thursday.