A man has appeared in court following an alleged serious assault which led to another man being taken to Raigmore Hospital at the weekend.
Inverness Sheriff Court heard that a woman had argued with her husband before she crashed her car after drinking.
A man who has already completed almost 450 hours of unpaid work in the past 12 months for various offences was told by a sheriff to stop offending.
Police found he was "under the influence of a substance".
A Tain man who repeatedly pestered his former partner after she found a new romance over a year following the split was jailed for 10 months.
Sheriff Gary Aitken warned him he risks going to prison if found with a knife again.
They also made no plea to another charge of robbing a man of a mobile phone.
The 25-year-old was on a community payback order at the time of the offence.
Inverness Sheriff Court saw a huge mix of criminal business in December.
Police who conducted a routine check detected a strong smell of cannabis from the car.
Sheriff tells teen driver: "This has the flavour of someone showing off to his friends. It was a terrible accident with terrible consequences."
The low winter sun yesterday morning proved ideal conditions for those at the right latitude to see a rare cloud type.
Sheriff was told that the report had not been done due to "unforeseen circumstances".
He admitted a charge of threatening or abusive behaviour.
Sheriff tells 23-year-old to behave himself and have a Merry Christmas.
Outside the bar, the man continued to shout and swear at the manager saying that he had a "shotgun".
In another incident he was shouting incoherently in the street and challenged one man to fight.
He was fined and banned from driving at Inverness Sheriff Court.
A Christmas Day row marked the beginning of the end of a relationship between a 35-year-old man and his partner.
A woman was assaulted despite a man being banned from approaching or contacting her, by a court order.