The Annual General Meeting of the Friends of the Ochils will be held on Wednesday 17 November 2004, at 7pm in Alloa Town Hall. The speaker will be Mike Dales, access and conservation officer with the Mountaineering Council of Scotland (which is Perth-based, and Mike himself lives just to the north of the Ochils). He will speak on "Access - the new era", and there will be scope for discussion afterwards.