A photography firm has “sincerely” apologized to parents after additional school pictures omitted children with “complex” needs.

Parents expressed their fury after it emerged a photographer working for Tempest Photography took additional images of a P5 class at Aboyne Primary School, in Aberdeenshire, without children with additional support needs.

One of the children removed from the photograph was a wheelchair user whose twin sister was distracted to learn she had been omitted from an image that was offered to parents for purchase.

Now, the Cornwall-based photography firm – which employs local photographers to take school photos across the UK –