Crime

A 31-YEAR-OLD man who pretended to be half his age to get naked images of girls sent to him received 300 hours of unpaid work instead of jail.

Three Dingwall schoolchildren were offered drugs by a Tayside man who asked one of the girls to take a tablet he said was valium.

Police in Easter Ross have issued an appeal for public help over a reported weekend assault.

A police consultation has shown that confidence has risen in the past year.

Allan Alexander Ian Muir (54) has been found.

A Dingwall woman was warned she could face being locked up after an attack with a knife left another teenager scarred for life.

A man who posted an intimate video of a woman on a "swingers" website has been fined £470 in a Highland court.

Police in Ross-shire have issued an appeal and a description following reports of a man indecently exposing himself in a Ross-shire visit.

A former soldier who served in Northern Ireland had a "traumatic experience" there and has not recovered since, Inverness Sheriff Court was told.

Police carried out a routine stop of a vehicle on the Kessock Bridge and found the driver was under the influence of cocaine.

The Tain man is expected to appear at court again within the next eight days.

A delivery driver's careless overtaking manoeuvre on the A9 near Rosskeen landed him a ban and fine.

The cause of death of 48-year-old Gary Wallace, who was remanded in prison this year, has not yet been revealed.

Police have welcomed the conviction of Kim Avis, who was today found guilty of a series of sexually offences including rape.

A Dingwall man who was in an Inverness bar shortly after his 18th birthday had a knife in his back pocket.

A scaffolder who was badly burned in an explosion while growing cannabis in a rented house in Ross-shire was jailed for two years.

A housebreaker’s lawyer has appealed to a sheriff to have his client assessed for a drug treatment and testing order in an bid to end his offending.

Operation Respect targets antisocial behaviour of various types and aims to reassure the public.

A new campaign is being launched warning of the dangers of bogus and rogue trader crime.

Texts sent to mobiles include phrases such as ‘your Asda order is out for delivery’.