SCOTTISH ministers will go ahead with converting two major roads into dual carriageways – despite Nicola Sturgeon declaring a “climate emergency.”

The Scottish Greens have called on the government to use the estimated £6 billion being spent on the roadworks on improving the Highland railway line instead.

But at FMQs, Deputy First Minister John Swinney argued that “the government has to take forward its agenda in a sustainable way” while insisting that the work on the A9 and A96 must go ahead.