A council which billed a motorcyclist for damaging a road when he collided with a stray sheep has defended its decision.
Biker Moray Ferguson was sent a bill for £200 by Aberdeenshire Council after his bike hit a sheep which had wandered into his path on the unclassified Cuminestown to Fyvie road.
A council spokesman said it was a “standard procedure” to charge people involved in accidents for damaging its roads.





