Brora pupils cut sod with golden spade at symbolic groundbreaking ceremony for Old Clyne School project

Two Brora Primary School children performed the honours at a groundbreaking ceremony for Clyne Heritage Society's £3.5 million Old Clyne School project on Monday.

Young Finlay Mackay and Daisy Bayliss-Gunn used a golden spade to symbolically cut the first sod outside the dilapidated school on the northern edge of Brora.

They were joined by three older members of the community – Wattie MacBeath, Mary Warrior and Sheina Bruce, whose late husband Hamish Bruce was the sociey's first chairman.

Thurso-based O'Brien Construction will start work next Monday, April 1, to transform the building into a heritage centre and visitor attraction.

The ceremony was attended by around 85 people including 17 children from the Brora p2/3 ckass and Sutherland MP Jamie Stone.

Heritage society chairman Dr Nick Lindsay said it was the start of a new chapter.

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