Crime

A Buckie man has admitted drug driving after being caught behind the wheel while eight times over the legal limit.

A 60-year-old driver has admitted crashing into another car while more than two times over the legal alcohol limit.

John Swinney was asked to meet them ‘in the hope that the killer of their husband and father will finally be brought to justice’.

An attempted break-in has left the roof of a primary school damaged.

Andrew Wilson, then aged four, saw his father Alistair lying in a pool of blood after he was shot in Nairn.

Online puppy scams have sparked police appeals for buyers to be vigilant.

The crash took place between Alves and the Glenburgie Distillery junction at around 2.15am.

An altercation in a playpark in Forres has sparked a police appeal for witnesses.

Police are appealing for information following a report of unauthorised metal detecting in the grounds of Banff Castle.

Firearms officers were on the scene as a search warrant was executed at a home.

A police report features anti-social behaviour, violence and disorder, as well as theft and road crime.

A former Met detective has claimed an old man was spotted weeping on a bench shortly after Nairn man Alistair Wilson was gunned down 20 years ago.

An 18-year-old man has been charged in connection with a road traffic offence following a fatal crash on the A9 near Aviemore.

Thieves have stolen a number of cars after drivers left them unattended to defrost amid the ongoing cold snap, police have warned.

A Thurso dog owner talked about his anguish and delight after his dog was stolen at Inverness and found a few days later in Elgin.

A 16-year-old male has been arrested and charged in connection with the attempted murder of a teenager in Elgin on Saturday.

A car and its driver have been traced after a 33-year-old was found dead.

Two Glaswegians involved in a fight outside a Buckie pub will be sentenced on Hogmanay after pleading guilty.

The teenager who killed bus driver Keith Rollinson in a “frenzied attack” has been jailed for four years and four months.

Police investigating a stabbing which left a teenager needing hospital treatment are chasing “a positive line of enquiry”.