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Date for start on long-awaited Fochabers and Mosstodloch bypass

WORK on a long-awaited bypass in Moray will begin in a fortnight.

Transport Scotland has announced construction work on the Fochabers and Mosstodloch bypass, which will relieve traffic on the heavily-congested A96 Aberdeen-Inverness road, will start in two weeks.

The £31.5million project, awarded to Morrison Construction, is expected to take around two-and-a-half years to complete.

A new three-mile stretch of single-carriageway road will be built between Mosstodloch and Fochabers, avoiding the current route through the High Street.

Roundabouts will be put in at the Baxters factory and the A98 junction to Fraserburgh, and underpasses built for pupils travelling from Mosstodloch to the primary and high schools at Fochabers.

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