Brora drink-driver Patrick Blackburn has been fined £900 and banned from the road for three years.
A DANGEROUS driver reached nearly double the speed limit on a north road, a court heard.
An elderly driver who caused the death of another motorist has spoken through his lawyer of his “deep sadness” at the incident.
A Brora man was jailed for 12 months today after admitting assaulting a man with a bottle while having an axe up his sleeve.
A sexual predator was caught in an online sting while staying at a Kinlochbervie bed and breakfast.
A Brora man who verbally abused his partner, smashed a mirror and kicked a door, has been fined a total of £565.
A SUTHERLAND farmer is denying allowing his stock to stray onto a stretch of the trunk road where there is a series of sharp bends.
A SHERIFF has ordered background reports to be prepared on a Brora man who threatened his partner and caused damage.
Convicted killer Nigel Whitham, of Phimister Crescent, Embo, who is out of jail on licence, has been given a road ban.
The distressed partner of a Dornoch man ran half-a-mile to a public phone box at night to call police after he acted aggressively towards her.
A GOLSPIE man described as a “pillar of his community”, took to the wheel while more than four times over the drink-drive limit.
A young Golspie man’s behaviour was so hostile and aggressive after he took drink and drugs, that police feared for his well being.
Police who called at a Balintore man’s home on a routine enquiry were greeted with an ‘overwhelming’ smell of cannabis, a court heard.
A driver from Wick has been fined and had his licence endorsed after failing to observe the speed restriction on his vehicle.
A NORTH coast drink-driver was detected after landing his vehicle in the ditch in the early hours of the morning, a court was told.
An Edinburgh based Spanish native with a job assembling rockets to carry satellites into space has admitted drink driving on a Highland road.
An Embo resident was so drunk at the wheel of his car that he burst two tyres as he weaved about the road.
A BETTYHILL resident has been placed under social work supervision for two years after ‘extreme’ pornographic images were found on his computer.
AN Alness driver reacted angrily when stopped by police for a routine document check.
Two brothers armed themselves with a baseball bat and a fence post and went to a hostelry in a Highland community to continue a previous fight.