Courts

He will appear again in the next eight days.

A motorist claimed to police he had smashed his car in Wester Ross after he had swerved to avoid a deer.

A 79-year-old woman was pushed to the floor when she intervened to stop a man viciously assaulting her daughter.

Inverness Sheriff Court was told: "It was an error of judgement."

Inverness Sheriff Court heard: "He was dealing with a number of matters at the time and his car added to his list of woes."

The victim of a vicious Alness assault by a man and a woman was able to identify his attackers leading to their arrest shortly afterwards.

A village in Wester Ross was looking even more picturesque than usual this weekend when a magical rainbow spread itself above it.

A Romanian citizen staying in Dingwall claimed he met an Albanian stranger in an Edinburgh bar who paid him £200 a day to sell drugs in the Highlands.

A 30-year-old man has been arrested and charged following the recovery of drugs with a potential street value of at least £200,000 in Alness.

Two Ross-shire men who injured each other with a bottle in a street brawl reconciled when they found themselves in the same wing of Inverness prison.

Jason Webber spotted the convoy behind him and swerved repeatedly on to the opposite carriageway to prevent them passing him.

Inverness Sheriff Court hears woman just home after giving birth to first child, was confronted by abusive and threatening man.

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.