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£2.3bn Forth bridge ‘on time and on budget’

Ministers reaffirmed their commitment to Scotland’s biggest transport project in a generation yesterday after publishing a parliamentary bill to build a £2.3 billion replacement Forth road bridge.

Despite ongoing wrangles with Westminster about how the crossing will be paid for, the Scottish Government insisted it was "on time and on budget" to open by 2016 and would be funded by "existing capital resources" if necessary.