A small remote Highland primary school is to be mothballed after 130 years, but will reopen if people with children move into the area.

Kinbrace, in the sparsely populated interior of Sutherland, had only two pupils, who were costing the Highland Council £42,000 a year each to be educated, more than eight times the £5000 average for the local authority.

One pupil will leave this summer to go to Farr High School on the north coast of Sutherland, and the remaining pupil will move to Helmsdale Primary on the east coast, 17.2 miles away.

The decision has been taken in consultation with the parents and community, but a Highland Council spokeswoman stressed it might not be the end for the school.

"If people moved in with an appropriate number of pupils of primary age, we would have to look at reopening it again," the spokeswoman said.

Kinbrace opened in December 1883 with 18 children. Its roll reached 23 in 1978, but since 2003 it has never been above five.