Meeting on sauce-link hall future

The centre is one of two community halls in Alness

Users of a community hall with links to a famous sauce manufacturer are to meet over proposals to move its running from the council to local volunteers.

The Perrins Centre in Alness is one of six village halls in Easter Ross that Highland Council could offload.

The local authority has offered management training and £1,000-a-year towards costs.

But Joan Ross, of Alness Community Association, said volunteers would not be able to find the funds needed.

She said: "A thousand pounds is laughable."

The meeting about the Perrins Centre - one of two halls in Alness - is to be held on Tuesday evening.

Dyson Perrins - of Lea & Perrins sauce fame - was a local estate owner in the 1920s and gave Alness the centre, bowling club and golf club.

He also turned on the town's electricity supply in 1924.

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Groups who use the village hall say the plans will not work