Courts

Inverness Sheriff Court heard the offender also subjected police to a tirade of abuse.

He was fined and given a driving ban at Inverness Sheriff Court.

A pensioner didn't see a pupil crossing the road in front of her as she dropped off her grand-daughter at Dingwall Academy.

A relationship break-up upset a 37-year-old Culbokie man so much he returned drunk to his ex-partner's house and became aggressive towards her.

An argument ensued when a Wester Ross man tried to prevent his partner from driving her car after drinking alcohol.

A shellfish processing worker banned from driving for having drugs in his system was spotted by police driving his VW Passat last month.

An Easter Ross man who recklessly spat at a police officer and racially abused another is back in prison after breaking a promise.

Officers from the National Child Abuse Investgation unit raided a Wester Ross house and found indecent images of children on a man's phone.

He turned to cannabis to give him pain relief for a spinal and knee condition.

The lodging of the First Notice enables FAI proceedings to commence under the direction of the sheriff.

Kyle Rossiter (23) jailed for five years and seven months for his role in the terrifying incident at a bungalow near Beauly.

He attacked his pensioner mother and then damaged his grandmother's home during a four-hour stand-off with armed police earlier this year.

The sheriff said: 'If the court tells you not to go near someone, you don't or you will go to jail.'

He was remanded in custody after the appearance at Inverness Sheriff Court.

A drunk Dingwall man who abused police while waiting to be sentenced for a similar offence 10 months earlier was told he was "a perennial pain".

Ross-shire man appears in court on drug supply charges.

A Ross-shire man who has served 11 prison sentences in the past six years has begun his 12th after admitting stabbing his partner on the head.

The cause of a lorry driver’s death in a crash on the A9 remains unexplained, a Fatal Accident Inquiry has heard.

Far from showing gratitude to those trying to help, he threatened them.

A man is expected to appear in court in relation to an incident in a Ross-shire village yesterday.