An alert was raised at 9.50am.
The victim of a vicious Easter Ross assault by a man and a woman was able to identify his attackers leading to their arrest shortly afterwards.
An electricity company technician was under stress on returning from a 97 hour week and briefly turned to alcohol as his marriage was also in trouble.
His defence agent begged for clemency and said the roofer was at a crossroads in his life.
Ross bottle attack warning: 'If this carries on you will find yourself in prison for a long time'
Driver stopped on Ross-shire road closed due to storm flooding had cannabis in system, court told.
An injured Muir of Ord man who spat on a police officer who came to assist him was fined a total of £2175.
'It is a miracle you didn't kill yourself or some other innocent road user. You have a very poor history of complying with the Road Traffic Act.'
A rapist has been jailed for 13 years after being convicted of sex and physical assaults on three women in the Inverness and Ross-shire areas.
A controversial goal from Thomas Lewis left the visitors bewildered.
She will learn her fate next month but has in the meantime been disqualified from driving.
A teenager vandalised his girlfriend's Dingwall home and then phoned the police to report himself.
The sheriff said: "If this was two years ago, the guidelines then were an 18-month jail sentence."
A Tain man who repeatedly pestered his former partner after she found a new romance over a year following the split was jailed for 10 months.
Stress over the Christmas period led to a Romanian immigrant and his partner having an argument which ended with him pulling her to the floor.
A 51-year-old Evanton man appeared in private at Inverness Sheriff Court on three allegations of road traffic offences.
A telephone was thrown at the wall during the incident. The sheriff gave his verdict.
'You were in possession of foul images of children being abused for your own pleasure and I can never fathom why.'
The low winter sun yesterday morning proved ideal conditions for those at the right latitude to see a rare cloud type.
Police were called to an Alness supermarket after a customer who had previously been banned entered the store and refused to leave.