Page 94, the Private Eye Podcast.

Hello and welcome back to page 94.

My name, as always, is Andrew Hunter Murray.

And here we are in the fourth of our special mini series

of shortlisted entries for the Paul Foot Awards.

We're building up, it's now only a few days away to the awards themselves, which are going

to be dished out at a glittering ceremony with the magazine's editor, with all the judges, with all the

shortlisted entrance, and each day over these six days we are talking to one of the brilliant

shortlisted hacks or teams of hacks. So without further ado here is number four.

So my name is Louis McLean and I write for the Northern Scott and sister papers up in Murray sandwich between Inverness and Aberdeen.

Okay and what is the story that has brought you to the Paul for the Wars this year?

Basically the Scottish government's pledge to dual-b-96 by 2030, the A96 being the sort of

of trunk road between Aberdeen and Inverness. Okay.

It's almost entirely single carriageway.

The pledge to get that dueled by 2030 was scrapped more than three years ago

and yeah, they've neglected to tell anybody.

Okay and just to give a bit of journalistic colour about the A96 because you know it's a row that a lot of

listeners may not have driven along they may not be up on their airroads they may not

know much about it at all but you know linking in Vanessa and Aberdeen quite an important

road but clearly also relatively small at the moment is that a fair summation of

what it's like. The Northern Scott the title that I for, has been campaigning on the 896 for over 20 years.

And there's been calls for it to, yeah, to bypass at least the major towns, to at least bypass the major towns along the way for-

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