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He ran off after the collision, but he left his passenger who told the police who he was.

The court heard the 57-year-old had a similar conviction before.

A sheriff warned the teenagers that they “would not live long” if they carried on driving at excessive speed.

A man and woman have been jailed for a total of 10 years and nine months for running an extensive trafficking operation for sexual exploitation.

He also admitted assaulting one man to his injury by repeatedly punching him on the head.

A 49-year-old man has appeared at court charged in connection with an alleged 29-hour siege in Castletown on Monday and Tuesday.

The man, who also faced a charge of possession of a bladed item, will appear again within the next eight days.

A man will appear in court tomorrow following an alleged serious assault in an Easter Ross town yesterday.

A 60 year old Wester Ross man who had four drink driving convictions was spared a jail sentence after running up his fifth.

Ryan MacDonald (31) committed the offences - which included three charges of rape - in the Sutherland, Inverness and Aberdeen areas.

Police who discovered a Tain man covered in blood were subjected to threats and insults with one officer getting spat at in the face.

The Lord Advocate has instructed a complete reinvestigation of the 2004 murder of Alistair Wilson in Nairn.

Mananchaya Wanitthanawet (40) and Cameron Wilson (30) were convicted at the High Court in Dundee on Thursday, August 22

The 23-year-old Romanian was recruited by a serious organised crime gang uncovered by the police County Lines operation.

From the records of the Highland Archive Centre

A Dunbeath man drove while disqualified less than two months after being banned, Wick Sheriff Court heard on Wednesday.

A sheriff heard on Tuesday how the former head of IT at Dounreay was trapped in a sting operation by police who exposed him as a serial sex offender.

“I’m having to watch the nasty comments people are writing about me on Facebook. It’s very unfair and I feel for others…put in this awful position.”

Jail sentence for duo recruited by serious organised crime gang.

A motorcyclist killed in a three-vehicle crash on the A9 at the weekend has been named by police.