Courts

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.'

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.

A Highland construction company that employed 11 workers is facing liquidation.

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.

A father of two mistakenly thought his partner was having an affair when he discovered a message to her from another man, a court heard.

He faced a charge of attempted murder and possession of an offensive weapon.

Owen Grant made no plea to the murder charge before being led out under a blanket by three guards.