Transport

Transport chiefs have 'egg on their face' after publishing a document about updates on the A9 dualling programme that is already out of date.

Convoys will be in operation from Monday

Work to upgrade the car parking bays at Raigmore Hospital started in July

Network Rail Scotland will introduce speed restrictions on lines across Scotland from today

Parts of the Highlands could see more travel disruption caused by the cold spell, with a yellow warning in place for this afternoon and tomorrow.

A public consultation on the Highland-wide 20mph limit programme has been launched.

Yellow weather warnings for snow and ice remain in place across most of the north.

The Highlands is one of Scotland's worst hot-spots for drink-driving, new data has revealed as police gear up for their annual festive crackdown.

Temperatures in the Highlands fell well below freezing overnight , with the mercury bottoming out at -18C near the A9 in the Cairngorms National Park.

Warnings for snow have been issued for large swathes of the Highlands – especially in the east – with up to 10cm possible in hilly spots

Highland residents were waking up to what is likely to have been the coldest night of the winter so far after the mercury plummeted as low as -15C.

The Scottish Conservatives did the analysis and then lashed out at the 'appalling betrayal' due to the “pitiful, snail-paced progress'.

Highland Council team active now across the region

Autumn deadline on A9 dualling passed yesterday

This morning's roads condition report from Highland Council

He says 'the promised autumn update on a new timescale has been missed – as if we’re not already used enough to missed SNP A9 deadlines.'

Strikes set to start on Saturday

Stagecoach suspend their 30 service

The Met Office has issued a weather warning for snow and ice from 5pm today (November 29) until Friday at 11am.

Highland winter roads report