NICOLA STURGEON could withdraw her support for a third runway at Heathrow airport, she revealed at First Minister’s Questions today.

The First Minister indicated that SNP approval for Heathrow expansion would be reconsidered as part of its review of policies that risk exacerbating climate change.

She was responding to Scottish Liberal Democrats leader Willie Rennie, who ridiculed the Scottish government’s abandonment of planned cuts to aviation taxes last week. The decision followed Ms Sturgeon’s declaration of a “climate emergency” and pressure from Labour and the Greens.