'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.
A Christmas Day row marked the beginning of the end of a relationship between a 35-year-old man and his partner.
A woman was assaulted despite a man being banned from approaching or contacting her, by a court order.
The messages were mostly sent to the Dingwall woman via social media.
A Muir of Ord man who was spotted by police speeding as he passed the officers dealing with another incident, was pursued.
An Easter Ross man who downloaded indecent photographs and videos of children being abused will be sentenced in January.
A Ross-shire man who smashed his sister's car while under the influence of valium tablets learned his fate.
A Spanish lorry driver who crashed head-on into a bus injuring its driver has been fined £840 and banned from driving in the UK for a year.
