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Fair deal for failures

THERE has been great anger at the £400,000 payout from public funds to the former directors of the company which failed so miserably to build the Edinburgh tram system.

And rightly so. It is completely unfair that individuals from Trams Initiative Edinburgh should be trousering sums in excess of £80k while other failures in the public sector go unrewarded.

How about the civil servants who were involved in the Scottish Parliament building project and who oversaw the budget rising from £50 million to £414m?

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