A letter has been penned to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson calling for the funds of a failed bridge project to Northern Ireland to be reinvested in the region.

Plans for the Boris Bridge, which proposed a connection between Scotland and Northern Ireland, was scrapped earlier this week.

Welcoming the move to scrap the project, Infrastructure Minister Nichola Mallon said: "Finally Boris Johnson seems to accept that his vanity project, the Boris Bridge, is not only technically unworkable but is a gross misuse of public money.

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"Now this issue is set to be put to bed, I have today sent a memo to the Prime Minister calling for this promised investment to be provided to the North so it can be used to enhance our public services to ensure we can deliver what our citizens and communities deserve.

"After almost 15 years of the DUP and Sinn Féin leading Government, our public services are continuing to crumble. Only the SDLP is standing up to Boris and his cronies in Number 10 to prioritise the needs of people over party political self interest. It's long past time the promises of investment and delivery in New Decade New Approach materialised."