A man has appeared in court charged with killing a vet after crashing a Maserati into a van in Mull.

Thomas Wainwright, 27, denies causing the death of vet Theresa Wade by dangerous driving on October 28 last year.

The Maserati Ghibli car he was driving was involved in a collision with a van being driven by the 29-year-old vet on the A849 near Craignure.

Wainwright, from Valbonne in France, is accused of driving while under the influence of alcohol at speeds of up to 95mph and on the wrong side of the road.

He is also accused of failing to provide a breath sample.

Wainwright is further accused of performing "doughnuts" with his car and driving the wrong way round a roundabout and on the wrong side of the road on various occasions between October 24 and 27 on the island.

At the High Court in Glasgow on Monday, Wainwright pleaded not guilty and a trial was set for March next year.

Ms Wade ran the island's only veterinary practice at Fishnish. She was travelling home from work to the Kinloch Hotel at Pennyghael, where she lived with partner Charles Pease, when the crash took place at 8.15pm.

At the time, her partner Mr Pease said: "Theresa was one of life's bright stars that burned out all too soon.

"I feel absolutely beside myself because she was a young woman with great potential who was an exemplar for all that Mull, Oban, Argyll and even Scotland could present to the world."

She grew up on the Ross of Mull where her mother and father Mary and Trevor Wade ran Bayview Stores at Bunessan.