A primary school has scrapped homework after the move was backed in a poll by parents and pupils.

Children at the 193-pupil Inverlochy Primary School in Fort William have been urged instead to use the time they would have spent on homework to read books, magazines and comics.

Nearly 80 per cent of pupils and 62 per cent of parents supported the move at the Highland school, while the 10 teachers were split down the middle.

The school carried out a six-week trial last year during which pupils were given no homework so that they had more time to play.