An attempt to reinstate funding for the Glasgow Airport Rail Link into the Scottish budget has been rejected.

SNP and Conservative members of the Holyrood finance committee voted down the move.

Labour wanted the Committee's report to include a call for the Ministers to bring back the £120m project in its conclusions.

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Speaking to BBC Scotland, Labour's David Whitton said: "The SNP and the Tories seem determined to leave Scotland's transport network stuck in the last century.

"Labour will continue to fight for the rail link to be reinstated and even at this late stage it is not too late for John Swinney to change his mind."

SNP member Joe Fitzpatrick described Labour as living in a "fiscal fantasy land" saying that they must accept that the governments budget has been cut.

(GK/BMcc)