A £23.8 million road safety scheme has been given the green light.

A total of 28 central reservation crossings on the A24 between Ashington, near Storrington, and Southwater, near Horsham, in West Sussex, will be closed.

They will be replaced with slip roads making the junctions safer and easier to navigate.

The junctions on the 8km stretch will be linked by underpasses beneath the dual carriageway.

Work on the scheme, designed by Lewes-based consultants Owen Williams for West Sussex County Council and funded by central Government, is likely to start in Spring 2008.