Campaigners and families welcome major A5 ruling

A major upgrade to one of the North’s most dangerous roads is being welcomed.

The “1.7 billion pound A5 project was stopped last year over climate-change targets, but can go now ahead after appeal judges overturned a ruling which had blocked it.

More than fifty people have died on the A5 since 2006.

Geraldine O’Neill’s brother Shane was killed travelling on it:

Niall McKenna, from the A5 Enough is Enough Campaign, has welcomed the move:

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