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The future of a pair of rural Aberdeenshire schools will be decided a council meeting next week.
The local authority’s education committee will meet to discuss the fates of mothballed Strachan School near Banchory and Gartly School south of Huntly.
Councillors have been urged to recommend the full council move to close Strachan’s school, and reassign its catchment area to create a new “dual zone” between Banchory Primary and Finzean School.
The primary, which had a capacity for 50 pupils and had a wide catchment area including Feughside, Glen Dye and Blackness, was originally opened in 1877, but over its more than a century of existence it struggled to retain enough pupils to justify being open.
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Vinay Ruparelia came to the UK at a time when he and other Asians were being expelled from Uganda by violent dictator Idi Amin.
Until the age of 18, when he moved to London, he had no access to study materials or recreational facilities at his school in Kampala.
But in spite of that disadvantage, he went on to become a pharmacist, charity champion and, since 2013, a deputy lieutenant of Banffshire.
The father-of-two, also an Honorary Sheriff of Grampian, Islands and Highlands, was made an MBE in recognition of his work with community enterprises and various charities in Banffshire in the Queen’s new year’s honours list.