Courts

An Ellon tyre company has been fined £9800 for health and safety breaches which came to light during an investigation into the death of an employee.

A woman who crashed a car into an Inverness building injuring three men has been told to expect at least four years behind bars when she is sentenced.

A woman has admitted lesser charges of dangerous driving after first going on trial for attempted murder at the High Court in Aberdeen.

A woman charged with attempted murder has heard she wanted her partner to die hours before the car they were in smashed into a wall.

Defendant challenged driver then hung onto open window.

A BUCKIE woman who drove her car while five times over the legal alcohol limit has been fined and banned from driving.

Buckie woman had an accomplice.

Dog's dead body had litter on top of it.

Four men and one woman have been sentenced to a total of 22 years in prison for their part in a county lines operation in the north-east.

Contractor Sean Anderson sustained fatal injuries when he fell through an open grating on the lower deck of BP’s Unity installation to the sea below.

A MORAY man who followed his ex-partner in a car from Rothiemay to Elgin has been sentenced to community service.

CANNABIS farm discovered during police raid.

A VIOLENT thug who took part in a horrific murder bid in Buckie before attacking a stranger in the street was jailed for six years .

AN Aberchirder woman who suffered life-changing injuries in an A96 crash that killed her partner and four others has broken her silence.

A MORAY first offender caught with £250,000 of cocaine in Aberlour told detectives Spanish gangsters would “kill” him if he co-operated with them.

Katie Margaret Lynch was sentenced in Banff Sheriff Court after a SSPCA investigation into the neglect of a two-year-old lurcher.

A Macduff man has been fined £750 for failing to seek veterinary attention for his 18-week old puppy after it had been hit by a car.

Defendant hid device inside bedside alarm clock.

Michael Jenkins, from Cumbria, was in Fraserburgh for work when he died in Watermill Road on Sunday.

AN Elgin mum who assaulted her son after he started to "play up" on a walk has been ordered to be of good behaviour.