🔴 No decision over 'notorious bottleneck' roundabout upgrade

Good morning Voornaam,

It's a glorious summer's day outside where temperatures are forecast to reach 22C today in Edinburgh and a balmy 23C in Glasgow. So it's worth making the most of it, if you can, as showers are unfortunately on the radar for this weekend.

In the meantime, we're here to bring you up to speed on the news agenda. Our Transport Correspondent Alastair Dalton brings you a story on the "notorious" Sheriffhall roundabout as frustration grows over the lack of action surrounding the bottleneck, 20 months after a key report was released.

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Elsewhere in our coverage, our Political Editor Alistair Grant brings you his assessments of yesterday's Spending Review - and what it means for relations between the SNP Government at Holyrood and the Labour government at Westminster, with a war of words set to intensify.