Crime

MORAY MP Douglas Ross has urged local MSPs to back Scottish Conservative calls to scrap the “dangerous” Hate Crime Act.

THE public is being urged to look out for signs of their personal information being misused as identity theft scams rise.

The alarm was raised by a councillor concerned mourners could be taken in by fraud.

NEW figures lay bare the true cost of crime to the high-street in the face of an alarming rise in theft and violence.

The building of a new £209 million Highland prison that will increase custody capacity and attract significant investment has moved a step closer.

Police Scotland’s first national campaign of the year is about to commence with the focus on speed limits.

NHS Highland has advised people to beware after learning that fraudsters have been targetting patients who use the region's Telecare service.

The Shandwick Inn near Kildary was targeted sometime between 10pm on Sunday and 10am on Monday.

A new police report shows that the Highlands recorded the highest number of drug driving offences across Scotland in December.

A Highland police officer has been arrested and charged in connection with sexual offences.

Accused said: "I just lost my mind. I just want to pay them back."

But he only has £10,040.39 available to hand over to the authorities at this point in time.

Chief has helped officers remove £15,000 worth of cannabis from region's streets

12 snow poles have been cut off to near ground level on the A838.

The man was fined and banned from driving for one year.

'What we are seeing playing out is...an internal power struggle between drug dealers, which is showing itself in a number of violent episodes.'

Police have urged Highland residents to be on the alert after the force received reports from locals who had received scam callers.

Lairg's mothballed police station, which has been empty for several years, is to be permanently axed and sold off, the force has announced.

A festive drink and drug driving clampdown by Highland police has led to 30 arrests in the first fortnight of December.

Police are hunting four "darkly-clothed" males who attacked a man in Tain.