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Oil tycoon pledges extra £35m to city gardens plan

ONE of Scotland's richest men has committed an extra £35million to support a controversial city centre project.

Oil tycoon Sir Ian Wood is now prepared to pay a total of £85m to support the £140m project to transform Aberdeen's Union Terrace Gardens into The Granite Web, a futuristic network of paths over grass parkland.