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Sheriff suggests Easter Ross man caught almost five times the drink-drive limit sell his car to pay fine imposed.
The 16-year-old is set to stand trial in the wake of the incident in Alness last June.
A drink-driver failed to see a pedal cyclist until the last minute as she drove along a Ross-shire road.
The sheriff made her thoughts known and deferred sentence for good behaviour.
A sheriff jailed a drink driver who drove his van down the wrong side of the busy A9 and rammed the car of a woman motorist he was pursuing.
"When he is driving again, he will make sure that there are no substances involved. He intends to give it up. This is a lesson learned."
The sheriff deferred sentence until tomorrow to allow the man to appoint another lawyer.
A family birthday party turned nasty when a Muir of Ord man called his ex-wife of around 30 years an ‘evil Lyn’.
Councillor Maxine Smith had been facing a court trial following charges.
Two Ross men armed themselves with knives after a lengthy drinking session and attacked each other, with one saying: ‘I have nothing to live for.’
“It became aggressive and he was saying ‘come on then’.”
Samantha MacGillivray became the third person to be charged with murdering the 36-year-old on November 11/12 last year.
‘This lady has on-going issues and there is a previous conviction which will give the courtsome concern’.
A 60-year-old Wester Ross man who drove while drunk for the fourth time has escaped a jail sentence.
An Alness man who plunged the head of his 72-year-old victim into a basin of water several times was jailed for 21 months.
A drunk-driver terrorised a woman motorist he mistook for his wife by driving up and down the A9 and ramming her on the Kessock Bridge.
Sheriff Sara Matheson told Michael Anderson it was her public duty to severely deal with such incidents as this committed at a family music event.
A retired policeman's son assaulted one of his dad's former colleagues when they tried to arrest him on Boxing Day.
An Easter Ross woman set her Doberman dog on police who had gone to her house after complaints about her abusive behaviour by neighbours.
Two men were confronted by a hysterical man outside a Wester Ross hotel and one of them sustained a broken thigh bone when he was attacked.
