Matthew Kerr: Last News

A drunken farmer destroyed 80 metres of hedgerow before smashing into a tree and writing off his £30,000 car on the way home from the pub. Hugh Stewart was found lying unconscious across the passenger seat and failed a roadside breath test after being rescued from the vehicle by firefighters.

A man seen waving a claw hammer above his head during a disturbance on a Perth city street has been ordered to carry out community service.

There's long shots, then there’s Longmuir — as Kirkintilloch Rob Roy found out to their cost in Saturday’s West of Scotland Premier Division clash with Pollok at the weekend.

East Kilbride man has been fined after a road rage incident on the A90.

Perthshire, lost control of his car at speed and crashed through a fence, across the garden, and into the family's car before resting against the living room window. Sarah Dunbar said she and her family could have been killed in the incident and described Dow as a "notorious boy racer" who had terrorised a village.Dow admitted driving dangerously and at excessive speed before colliding with a fence, car and building in Bankfoot.He admitted damaging all of them and causing fear or alarm to Sarah and Alan Dunbar when he crashed his 14-year-old Vauxhall Corsa on 27 July last year.Fiscal depute Matthew Kerr said: "The couple returned home from hospital with a new born baby girl.

Perth Sheriff Court heard today how Livingston-Taylor lashed out at his wife after suspecting she had been drinking while he was out in the morning. Fiscal depute Matthew Kerr told the court: "The complainer and the accused have been in a relationship for six years and have been married for three years."At about 1pm the accused returned and there was an argument with the complainer.