The last objection to a flyover on the A90 at Laurencekirk has been dropped in a development it is hoped will finally clear the way for the £25 million project.

The Courier newspaper reports campaigners and politicians have now urged Transport Scotland to ‘get on with it’ and build the grade-separated junction after a 20-year safety campaign.

But the report says that “joy over the latest step forward has been diluted by a warning from Scotland’s transport secretary red tape and budgets pressures still surround the scheme”.

Fly-through designs for the proposed flyover were presented in 2020, Aberdeenshire dropped objections in February and Transport Secretary Fiona Hyslop has confirmed to North East Scotland Conservative MSP Tess White the final Laurencekirk objection been dropped.

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