Campaigners fighting plans for a multi-million pound incinerator in a Highland town say they are preparing for the final push ahead of a crunch meeting to decide its fate.

Combined Heat and Power wants to build a £43m incinerator in Invergordon, prompting concern and anger from local residents.

The chance for the public to give their views to a Scottish Government consultation on the plans closes on Friday.

Planning permission for the proposal was granted by Scottish Ministers in 2010, after an appeal against refusal by Highland Council.

Permission was quashed by the Court of Session the next year after a legal challenge by Ross Estates Company, in which former Harrods boss Mohammed Al Fayed is a principal shareholder.

Judges returned the issue to Scottish Ministers to make a fresh decision on the planning application.

A formal meeting into the plans will be held on March 27.

Protest group iCARE, backed by Al Fayed's Balnagown Estates have pledged to continue their battle against the plans.

Tina McCaffery, an anti-incinerator campaigner, said: "In three years they have not stated how they would protect the community from any forms of pollution.

"A public local inquiry would let us be heard and allow our experts and the community representatives to be heard.

"We have a democratic right to our safety and our health and to live without fear for our children and their generation and how they're going to be affected."

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