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Council may have to pay back £500m trams grant

EDINBURGH could be forced to pay back the £500 million of tax-payers’ cash it was given to fund its beleaguered trams project.

A senior Transport Scotland executive told MSPs yesterday that, under the terms of the grant, the Scottish Government could demand that the council return the money if the trouble-hit scheme was not completed.