Christopher McWhirter, 32, claimed that someone else had gained access to his laptop and downloaded indecent videos of children and extreme pornography.
Firemen were deployed to the blaze which destroyed a 4x4 car in the Aberdeenshire town.
The Moray planning round-up also includes the end for a long-vacant Forres shop and new details about Burghead Church makeover.
Back-to-back wins have changed the mood at Pittodrie and it's all to play for in the closing stretch.
Our reporters have been sitting in courtrooms across the north and north-east this week and covered a wide variety of cases.
The road was partially blocked after a crash on the A90.
David Anderson, a professor of anthropology and a representative of the University and College Union, says staff are being overworked and silenced.
Developers say the venture will “redevelop underutilised areas” of the store's vast car park.
Experts fear the bill could soar to as high as £360,000, with a record number of exams now being carried out in Aberdeen.
After the disgraced TV presenter died in 2011, there has been a long campaign to remove his former Glen Coe home.
From Malaysia, Dr Lip has made a home in Aberdeen, and is leading a medical revolution in breast cancer screening that will save time, effort – and lives.
A forensic examination in open court of everything the council has done - and in full public view - is imperative in the interests of local democracy.
